The Mind Quotes

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price for everything. Solar does the best as far as very minimal wildlife damage.

The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

literature is the last banquet between minds.

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

My Mind To Me a Kingdom Is.

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.

We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.

That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't get the images out of your mind.

From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.

Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.

I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.

It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.

Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.

There is One Infinite Mind which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God.

America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.

The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

Harmony is the inlet of God into the mind, so that the mind acts in obedience to a law above mind - and that law is unity.

Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.