The Mind Quotes

I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally accept that different people have seen a different film.

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.

The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.

I thought Fred Astaire was the most chic man. I loved the way he dressed. Never mind his dancing, which was beyond - he was just so elegant and had this freedom of body.

Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.

I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.

Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.

You must have your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.

It is time, not the mind, that puts an end to love.

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.

Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.

You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

... Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.

God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form.

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.

To my mind [ Jonathan Edwards] is an interesting figure because he is both a canonical Reformed thinker, and yet also someone that pushed the envelope in a number of key areas of theology.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.

Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

I don't like to think on obstacles. I guess that if you focus your mind on obstacles, they will grow bigger.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

Intercession is about putting ourselves in other’s shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective

All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.

Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.