The Mind Quotes
Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! it never gets back out again.
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.
What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it.
Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.
The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.
I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.
Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.
Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.
If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.
Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."
Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.
Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.
Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.
Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.
It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act.
The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.