Quotes About Mind

Consciousness is some kind of peripheral thing which picks up some of what's going on in our head.

A consistent materialist would consider it as self-evident that the mind has very important innate structures, physically realized in some manner. Why should it be otherwise?

An independent mind must seek to separate itself from official doctrine –and from the criticism advanced by its alleged opponent.

How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.

When a Lady chooses to Change Her Mind,' said the Mouse with a touch of hauteur, 'a Gentleman would consider it no more than her Privilege, and not Badger Her About It.

Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind

Maybe some could say that changing her mind was part of her problem. But she didn't think so. If you never changed your mind, what was the point of having one? It seemed to Hayley she'd known too many people who were stuck with one way of thinking, and how could that be using the brain God gave you.

Heal the mind, ease the heart.

Repression isn't the answer. I know that. It's one of the things that punish the body for what's closed up in the mind. It's always so much easier to analyze someone else, always much harder to see things when it's yourself.

He knows that, too. All of it. He feeds on their rage and fears. The weaker minds, so many, he uses. Whispering threats, promises in equal measure. Worship me, bow to me, and I will one day grant you your vengeance.

They broke his mind instead, and that's dangerous

The head is always the dupe of the heart. —LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Obviously, without question, she'd lost her mind.

Don't complicate the simple, Lenore, he told her thinking aloud. It usually manages to complicate itself.

If he lost his mind in Lunacy, would he ever have had it to lose?

Your gift, your power comes from your heart and your belly as much as your mind. Your belly holds the anger, your heart the compassion. Your mind the will.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" (Matt. 22:37).4

while God does want to reach our hearts, He does not bypass our minds in the process.

Dear Jesse, as the moon lingers a moment over the bitterroots, before its descent into the invisible, my mind is filled with song. I find I am humming softly; not to the music, but something else; some place else; a place remembered; a field of grass where no one seemed to have been; except a deer; and the memory is strengthened by the feeling of you, dancing in my awkward arms.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying.

We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've learned is either wrong or irrelevant. A big part of our mind can handle this; a smaller, deeper part cannot. And it's that smaller part that matters more, because that part of our mind is who we really are (whether we like it or not).

We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've learned is either wrong or irrelevant. A big part of our mind can handle this; a smaller, deeper part cannot. And it's that smaller part that matters more, because that part of our mind is who we really are (whether we like it or not).