The Mind Quotes

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

Real things don't frighten me just the ones in my mind do.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

You are not a body. You are not a mind. You are infinite light, infinite intelligence, the radiance of all beings, the dharmakaya - the endless light of creation.

The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.

The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the foods that make you fat-the carbohydrates.

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

Your greatest weapon is your enemy's mind

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

To change the limitations of our personal pasts, our minds need a reason to change what we believe-and a good one at that.

Do you mind if I don't smoke?

I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood

My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.

I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.

Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.

I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.