“Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.”

“I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.”

“A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind.”

“A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind”

“What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person”

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”