The Mind Quotes
I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.
To be happy in life... You've got to train your mind to see the good, to be grateful for what you have.
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.
Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.
We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.
We need to admit the mind into Christian fellowship again. We need the mind disciplined in Christ, enlightened by faith, passionate for God and his creation, to be let loose in the world.
I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
If your mind can go along with you it is a blessing. If your mind obeys you, it is a super-blessing.
Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.
Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.
Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us.
Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em.
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death
Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.
The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.
If something is not working today, then something better is in store. This surety should be in our mind.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.
Keep in mind God's precept that states, 'Judge not, and you will not be judged' (Lk. 6:37), and in no way meddle in the lives of others.
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.
