The Mind Quotes

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.

Every great advancement was once nothing more than a dream in the mind of a visionary.

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

Pot enables you to think clearly without any fear or any limits. It's a mind-expander, which is part of why it's illegal and why drugs like Vicodin are legal.

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.

Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.

If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens.

God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

You have to acquire a personal peace of mind which comes with understanding.

She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.

I learned that if we set our mind to things, we can accomplish almost anything no matter what the circumstances are.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

I was watching the show last year and it didn't even cross my mind that this could even happen.

I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.

I think there's a prototype we're all looking for, whether it's Brett Favre or Troy Aikman. And everyone's got that picture in their mind of the prototype at the position.

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on.

I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.

No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!