The Mind Quotes

Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.

We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind.

The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...

Your education experience, talent intelligence, and financial situations don't matter. The important thing is the direction in which you focus your unique, powerful, creative mind

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

The mind, like any muscle, must be exercised.

To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.

I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates.

Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.

Food should be consumed while chanting your mantra inwardly. This will purify the food and the mind at the same time.

There is the path of karma, selfless action, the path of love and devotion, the path of training the mind and the path of Yoga, mantra and tantra this is what the various saints advocated.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

When I was going through my cancer treatment, I learned that you can never ask a stupid question. I asked every single question that came to my mind, and I believe that helped to calm my own anxiety.

When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.

We may forget him, but God will never forget us. We're forever on his mind and in his plans.

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!

There's an intelligence within the heart that is far bigger than our figuring out the mind.

There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.

The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.

Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

I gave the album [You're Under Arrest] to Quincy Jones and he loved "D Train". We couldn't call it "D Train"; it's called "MDI/Something's On Your Mind/MD2". That's on the album.

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

The whole point of all these conversations is to leave your mind empty, not full. If you go away with learning, you have missed the opportunity

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, & wisdom fills your mind.