Quotes About Mind

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don't follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.

If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

Only the man with a free mind has own the infinite horizons!

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.

The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired