What Is Mind Quotes

When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

While I was in the NFL, I would eat five times a day. I only eat twice a day now, and I box and play basketball every day. I'm extremely happy with my body and mind...

The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault.

Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems.

In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.

If we lose the ability in question for a single moment only, we are immediately being hijacked by an aggressive little "Think me!" and our mind begins to wander.

Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.

Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.

Be not weary in well-doing. … Out of small things proceedeth that which is great. Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind.

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.

It's a little weird when people turn around and look at you, but I don't mind. I really don't think I've changed.

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.

Our limbic system sets the mind's emotional tone and stores our highly charged emotional memories.

Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.

I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon.

Your private life, exposed, has a lingering effect on your mind and your game.

It's just a matter of, for me, getting my mind where it needs to be. Certainly I've made a lot of adjustments in my life, and I've gone through a lot. A lot.

I used my mind, and then eventually the method I used allowed me to master my craft.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.

Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.

No matter what meditation technique you use, just let the mind slow down and begin to explore its internal surroundings.

Meditation is the process of quieting one's mind, and letting go of the worries and stress of life.

A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.

I love trains. I dont even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but theyre not.

That's how it is online—there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.

People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.