Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Your mind is a free port. There are no customs house officers to examine the cargoes that are unladen.

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

I want to live outside of the box, and I definitely don't want to put God in a box, so I want to be able to dream big and kind of let that go of my small-mindedness.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Once in a while, you have to let your mind just go.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

I try and open a few doors to the mind, encourage people to embrace change and to stretch their capabilities.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

The human mind has no frontiers, it extends proportionately as the universe displays itself; man, then, can and must attempt all, and he needs only time in order to know all

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.