Quotes About Mind

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

I am allergic to domestic goddesses. Men would prefer a woman with a dirty mind to a clean house.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.

In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.