The Mind Quotes

We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.

Do you eat decayed food? No. Well, don't feed your mind with decayed books. Be as careful with the nutrition of your mind as you are with the nutrition of your body.

That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.

The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.

The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

The mind can be a crazy monkey that is always dying to escape from the moment.

Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.

One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.

Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.

Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which is not of the mind, burst forth in our hearts.

There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet, when our mind is in silence, then the new arrives.

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

I want to commend the [Federalist] Society for bringing together the best minds from right, left, and center to debate the most pressing legal issues of the day.

it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.