Quotes About Mind

His message perplexed his mind to that degree that he was fain, several times, to take off his hat to scratch his head. Except on the crown, which was raggedly bald, he had stiff, black hair, standing jaggedly all over it, and growing down hill almost to his broad, blunt nose. It was so like Smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over.

My dear Copperfield," he replied. "To a man possessed of the higher imaginative powers, the objection to legal studies is the amount of detail which they involve. Even in our professional correspondence," said Mr. Micawber, glancing at some letters he was writing, "the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression. Still, it is a great pursuit! A great pursuit!

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

It would come dearer...for when a person comes to grind off poetry night after night, it is but right that he should expect to be paid for its weakening effect upon his mind.

The crowd in the street jostling the crowd in his mind, and the two crowds making a confusion, he avoided London Bridge, and turned off in the quieter direction of the Iron Bridge.

If this practice is a safety-valve, comrade, well and good; but I don't altogether like your being so bent upon it in your present state of mind; I'd rather you took to something else.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Walker says, "Mind in itself is believed to be a subtle form of static energy, from which arises the activities called 'thought,' which is the dynamic phase of mind. Mind is static energy, thought is dynamic energy — the two phases of the same thing." Thought is therefore the vibratory force formed by converting static mind into dynamic mind.

The emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so it will take form

The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.

Escoja responder a la vida como Jesús respondió. Proteja su vida de oración. Proteja su vida de pensamiento. Busque a Dios y a todo lo piadoso. La Palabra de Dios promete que si llena su mente con aquello en que hay virtud y es digno de alabar, «el Dios de paz estará con usted» (Filipenses 4.9).

El oyente de mente embotada no tiene ninguna intención verdadera de investigar la Palabra ni de crecer. Sólo le gusta tener la seguridad de que va a eludir el infierno e ir al cielo.

De una renovación de nuestro entendimiento proviene un cambio en nuestra forma de hablar y nuestra conducta. A medida que nuestra forma de hablar y nuestra conducta se renuevan, nuestras relaciones con los demás también se renuevan. A medida que nuestras relaciones se renuevan, nuestro mundo inmediato se renueva. Todo comienza en la mente, con aquello en lo que decidimos pensar y meditar.

A man may have a perfect body, but if his emotions, mind, and will are not under the control of the Holy Spirit he will fail regularly and tragically as the husband, father, and follower God intends him to be.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?

The mind of no man is a unit, but is a community of mental states that influence one another.

undistorted interpretation of external sounds in the mind of a dreamer could not continue to exist in a dreaming mind, because that touch of relative realness would be of awakening and not of dreaming.

Women have more Theory of Mind than men, which makes them nicer people – less prone to start wars or engage in egocentric monologues at the dinner table. There's no reason to restrict Theory of Mind to an ability to put oneself into another's shoes. It involves too an ability to put oneself into another's hoofs, pads or fins. Broadly, it is the ability to appreciate the interconnectedness of things –

That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.

animal. Our self-reflective perception, our judging and choosing, are what constitute our soul, our consciousness, our conscience (sometimes).

BRAIN: A commodity as scarce as radium and more precious, used to fertilize ideas.

We should take care not to make intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

July is not only a season of the year; it is a season of the mind and memory. Hot days and sultry nights and crashing thunderstorms are a part of July, and to the drone of bees in the clover fields will soon be added the high-pitched sibilance of the cicada. The tang of ripe cherries and the sweetness of sunning hay...