Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles. – Horace Walpole, letter to the Countess of Ailesbury, 1779 July 10th

That’s the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface. – Robert M. Pirsig

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh