The Mind Quotes
I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it.
There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.
There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.
I’ve concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn’t eliminated anything yet.
Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else.
I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.
Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.
When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to be read. I've got the reader in my mind all the time.
Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge.
There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.
Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.
There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.
The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.
You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.
America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.
The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.
Driving that train, high on cocaine Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed Trouble ahead, trouble behind And you know that notion just crossed my mind
I love the cameras and don't mind mailing in my check when I fail to pay attention and go too fast.
Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.
I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.
The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die.
Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.
There's usually nothing in a guy's joke in which we have to understand what's going on in someone else's mind.
And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.
It is difficult to wrap your mind around this intellectually and until you've had the experience, it can be difficult to understand. I tell people to give it a shot; you have nothing to lose.
We can ask for a dream of guidance on any issue that is facing us, and when we're lucky the dream can take us out of the boxes of the everyday mind's approach to that theme.
CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.
Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.
Just last year I couldn't even get a date, and then this year… it's so bizarre that everybody just changes their mind at the same time.
A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.
Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.
