The Mind Quotes

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.

How then, is it natural that the mind of man, being so small as contained in such narrow spaces as a brain or a heart, should have room for all the vastness of sky and Universe?

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Yoga is the cessation of mind.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...

The hunger drive is truly a mind-body connection. Eating is so important that the nerve cells of appetite are located in the hypothalamus region of the brain.

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal.

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

To be happy is very important to do a great performance because you have to be comfortable; your mind has to be clear.

I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo.

We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat.

Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.

A holy mind cannot repeat a vile thing, let alone be the creator of a vile suggestion.

Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

Always be ready to release your mind.

The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.

If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.

Hey, no offense, but do you mind if you put both your palms where I can see ’em?

Faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith is not a "hope so." Faith is substance and evidence - substance for a scientific mind, and evidence for a legal mind.

The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.