The Mind Quotes
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.
Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
Surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the group. Associate with these people on a regular basis.
If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind.
The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.
When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.
Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.
Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.
The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
Surprising and interesting things happen to those who keep their eyes and their minds open and alert!
In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them.
I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.
The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.
Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.
Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate.
Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.
I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.
I'm not a neat freak. I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can't relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized.
He who can turn negative situations into something positive, has learned the law of transformation, his mind empowers life.
We in this country have to make up our minds -- -- we can not have it both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free.
So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.
True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.
See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.
The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.
In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.
I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.
Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.
Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference.
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
