Quotes about mind

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“The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”

“Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.”

“Life is a state of mind.”

“Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.”

“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.”

“To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.”

“At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.”

“The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the music breathing from her face, 19
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,—
And oh, that eye was in itself a soul!”

“It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties.”

“I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker.”

“There are people who do that,” Duff said. He’d barely sipped his rum.

“Really? What do you call them?”

“Alcoholics.”

“I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.”

“Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.”

“Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part… and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.”

“Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.”

“Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.”

“Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.”

“Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting.
Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom.
Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.”

“He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,
Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.”

“Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.”

“But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”

“I shot him the bird. (Get it? I shot him the—never mind.)”

“Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.”

“Time will pass; these mood will pass; and I will, eventually, be myself again. But then, at some unknown time, the electrifying carnival will come back into my mind.”

“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation – the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

“One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.”

“Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.”

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”

“She’d already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and
stop the fantasies plaguing her. If only to prove to herself that being with him would not be pleasurable for
her.”

“Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have
something else in mind. And…”
She paused long enough for my impatience to show. “And what’s the
fourth answer?”
“Wait,” she said.”

“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”

“whiskey makes the heart beat faster
but it sure doesn't help the
mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just
from the deadly drone of
existence?”

“Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine's 'genuphobia'. It means an unreasonable fear of knees."
"What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?" inqired Jessamine.”

“Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.”

“Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.”

“We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.”

“She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out.”

“I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.”

“Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

"For the liveliness of your mind, I did.”

“There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. (67)”

“How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?”

“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.”

“Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.”

“Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/”

“As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.”

“Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.”

“Hop in? Dude, are you out of your ever-loving mind? I can’t touch this. I might leave a fingerprint or something. (Nick)
Oh the horror. Guess I’ll have to trade the piece of junk in and get a new one if that happens. (Acheron)”

“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.”

“The stars know everything,
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.”

“God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn’t press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.”

“You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.”

“My mind… It's who I am. I think I'd rather suffer any other injury in the world than have my mind tampered with.”

“I hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.”

“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

“The enemy is always in the mind.”

“When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.”

“With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"
To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,
And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116)
trans by Robert Thurman”

“He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.”

“How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?”

“… the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.”

“This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.”

“All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?”

“We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.”

“… your mind was seizing on something to try to make sense of the emotion… Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?”

“Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.”

“Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.”

“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.”

“I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.”

“Sorry… my mind was wandering… one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.”

“For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of what he is thinking. A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.”

“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.”

“Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.”

“So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.”

“In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”

“Not that it was beautiful,
but that, in the end, there was
a certain sense of order there;
something worth learning
in that narrow diary of my mind”

“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”

“After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.”

“They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!”

“This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.”

“Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.”

“Upon the whole, a contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”

“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”

“At least Love your eyes that can see, your mind that can
Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.”

“There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.”

“Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.”

“As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?”

“Travelling expands the mind rarely.”

“You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.”

“Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.”

“Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.”

“A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.”

“What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.”

“Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.”

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

“The only thing about a man that is a man… is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.”