What Is Mind Quotes

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

The mind can wander while still focusing on one task.

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.

A sound mind in a manly body.

I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big fan of the all ages label, but I keep a wider audience in mind.

It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road.

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

Life wears down the edges of the mind.

The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.

I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.

When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong to the world.

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

Finished products are for decadent minds.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.

There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.

Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.

Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.