The Mind Quotes
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.
Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!
It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.
Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape.
A lot times you have your frame very much in mind and you're waiting for things to fall in place.
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.
Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I can say a couple of funny things about art.
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now is illumined by the spirit's light.
Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and emotion of the soul, for those two belong to the outward man.
They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.
Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.
Be magic choose and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to believe. We are who we choose to be.
There is no doubt in my mind. If there had been no assassination, we probably would have moved into negotiations leading to a normalisation of relations with Cuba.
Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness
Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.
What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.
Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.