Anything Quote by Mortimer Adler

“Nature’s particular gift to the walker, through the semi-mechanical act of walking — a gift no other form of exercise seems to transmit in…

— Kenneth Grahame

“The mind, it occurs to me, is an engine. There is an ambient mode in which the mind sits idling, before there is information.…

— George Saunders

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“The whole concatenation of wild and artificial things, the natural ecosystem as modified by people over the centuries, the build environment layered over layers,…

— John Stilgoe

[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it…

— Patricia A. McKillip

The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.

— David Mamet

going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.

— Barbara Hurd

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.

— Anonymous

The mind is like a parachute, it works only when it is open.

— Anonymous

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate…

— Michel de Montaigne

The mind is an enchanting thing.

— Marianne Moore

The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.

— Patrick Star