Quotes About Mind

She didn't believe that. Didn't agree with it. But intrusive thoughts were trespassers. You didn't invite them in. But they broke in, anyway, whether they were true or false.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

Omnia mea mecum porto.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things." — Cicero

Vivere est Cogitare

Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .

Wohl niemand tanzt, wenn er nüchtern ist, er müsste denn den Verstand verloren haben.

Why do you insist the universe is not a conscious intelligence, when it gave birth to conscious intelligences?

Quid? Quod eadem mente res dissimillimas comprehendimus, ut colorem saporem, calorem, odorem, sonum? Quae numquam quinque nuntiis animus cognosceret, nisi ad eum omnia referrentur et is omnium iudex solus esset.

I opened both eyes. Dread was sitting on my chest as if it were an animal. I mean, dread so real it had physical presence, like a Labrador retriever I could teach tricks to. Here, Dread. Sit, Dread. Roll over, Dread. Play dead, Dread.

There is, I came to realize, what the mind wants and what the body wants. The mind can excite the body, but its desires can also be false; whereas the body, the animal, wants what it wants.

I have believed in the value of knowledge and of truth. And I have believed that the quality of a life is not measured by money, celebrity, or material goods but by richness of mind, generosity of spirit, and by meaningful human relationships.

Living things are restrained by chains. The laws of nature, the flow of time, the vessel known as your "body", and the existence called your mind. The one chain that people can wield, words.

I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

With the mind we analyze data, while in the heart we wait for illumination on it.

The best physician is also a philosopher

There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink.

Often even more perplexing, however, is when these problems arise within the mind of the same person: when the right decision for the long term makes no sense for the short term;

The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling reason for him to seek an answer. And yet his mind bored on and on and he could not stop it, hanging with desperation to an impossibility to which it never should have paid attention.

He is hated, because he teaches hate. We obey him because we must. He holds our minds in the hollow of his hand.

I trade with you my mind.

I sometimes think, said Jason, that the soul may be a state of mind.

His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.