The Mind Quotes

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consciousness.

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear. [Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidate coeperunt.]

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.

The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

What ignorance there is in human minds.

The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.

In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.

I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind.

It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.

Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and more totality will be coming.

Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.

The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.

The greatest adventure that can happen to a human being is the movement from mind to no-mind, the movement from personality to individuality. The no-mind has an individuality: the mind is social.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Truth is just as essential to nourishing the mind as food is to nourishing the body. The more fully you live each moment in truth, the more powerful and effective those moments will be.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Each mind has its own method.

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.