Mind Quotes

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

What about your mind, does it shine?

I won from Mr. Jeffries because I outclassed him in every department of the fighting game. Before I entered the ring I was certain I would be the victor. I never changed my mind at any time.

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.

What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.

Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

All of your body is in your mind, but not all of your mind is in your body.

An artist is no bigger than the size of his mind.

When it comes to comedy, they always say, "Jackée, whatever comes to your mind." But heaven forbid I can't think of something. It's never happened yet, thank God. I may knock on wood.

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.

I've tried to meditate, but I feel like I always overthink the process. When I need to calm my mind, I will go for a family hike...

The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your mother, with your kids. These are what stay in your mind.

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.

Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety of getting injured is greater than my courage.

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

asleep to rummage in their minds

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.

I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

I shot him the bird. (Get it? I shot him the—never mind.)

My invite must have gotten lost in the mail," she said venomously. "But I don't mind crashing this party. -Maximum Ride talking to Max II

Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds.

Keep this in mind: there are no coincidences.

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire.

You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

Yoga is the best tool to help you change your mind about your body

Physically and mentally I'm stronger right now because an injury is not playing on my mind all the time.