The Mind Quotes

Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.

You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.

Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.

Then it crosses my mind, "But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!"

Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.

People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary.

Stand guard at the door of your mind.

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

I'm a nightclub comic. That's what I do. I work in the clubs uncensored because my mind is uncensored, and those are the thoughts that I have. I do the kind of comedy that I would enjoy seeing.

I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

You will never go beyond the barriers in your own mind. If you think you can't do something, then you never will.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

That's what being a leader is all about. If the other players see you in a non-positive mind set, that affects them. I have to present an air of confidence at all times.

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.

This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

Pity melts the mind to love.

Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.

A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.