Quotes About Minds

networks, in your brain. He remarked, "Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact . . . moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work, we choose who we will be the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form on our material selves."2

See these eyes so red Red like jungle burning bright Those who feel me near Pull the blinds and change their minds.

There is only immanent (material) death. There is no such thing as transcendent (immaterial) death. Life – real life, transcendent life – is eternal. It's birth that leads to death, not life. Life, true life, was never born. It has always been, hence it can never die. Bodies are born, not minds. Bodies die, not minds.

Evolution has given us minds tuned for survival and only incidentally for truth.

The quantum death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. 24 hours before he was "officially" declared dead it was announced on the internet that he had already died. Many people were shocked to hear of his "official" death, especially those who had believed he was already dead. Philip Seymour Hoffman was both dead and alive in the minds of millions simultaneously. A rare death for a rare actor.

Atheists desperately try to prove the non-existence of God using minds - by their own reasoning - that have evolved from a mud that suddenly appeared from nowhere out of nothing made by nobody. And we are told to believe that a Creator hypothesis is unbelievable.

Learning is the ecstasy of life which keeps our hearts young and our minds sharp.

Even the darkest minds can be overcome with compassion

A great teacher plants the seeds of greatness in the minds of future generations.

The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

In his book Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership, Harvard professor Howard Gardner

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.

But minds find ways to protect themselves, build fortifications, and some of those walls become traps.

He believed a kind of fragmentation had crept into people's minds in the modern era.

The hallucinations of alcoholics provide us with an opportunity to study crowds as they appear in the minds of individuals.

How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man is no longer a unique being with infinite possibilities and limitless choices but a number, a puppet, with just this difference — numbers and puppets are not susceptible to fear.

I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker, he continued, as though he had not heard her. We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything.

I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and it grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything.

Poetry,' I continued, 'is too sensational for young minds.

Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting,too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.