The Mind Quotes

Keep an open mind---but not so open your brain falls out.

Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a tomcat floating on a log.

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

I love boxing! Working out is calming and helps clear my mind.

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.

As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It's a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don't know who you are and why you are here.

The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

A fermented mind - according to nothing, we are something.

Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.

Education forms the common mind.

The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

I think you need a very strong mind to be on social media because people are mean and ignorant out there.

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul.

Looking beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a way through here that won't lead to utter calamity.

In our minds, rich is always the other person, the other family. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that is the case, you can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not know it.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.