Quotes About Mind

But it is generally agreed that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation; and that the powers of the mind, when they are unbound and expanded by the sunshine of felicity, more frequently luxuriate into follies than blossom into goodness.

Dost thou not, then, Prometheus, know this proverb, that "Words are the physicians of a mind diseased"?

I never knew an enemy of puns who was not an ill-natured man. A pun is a noble thing per se; it fills the mind, it is as perfect as a sonnet. May my last breath be drawn through a pipe and exhaled as a pun.

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.

Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority. Or whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonise.

Talleyrand, talking of a man who dealt in nothing but quotations, said, "That man has a mind of inverted commas."

The contemporary listener new to old time radio is in for a real treat... when played back it begins its magic and the listener becomes absorbed by the program and spellbound by the power of the imagination. For those listeners who have experienced this often enough, it is almost second nature to describe radio as the "theater of the mind."

Reading in bed jumpstarts dreams.

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

There is no Scorpion like a guilty mind— No sting so terrible as he must bear Whose conscience still reproves.

winter sneaks up on me before summer ends in my heart the spring blossoms arrive when my mind is still snowed in

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul...

Don't feel bad removing people who love to create their own chaos. Your allegiance is to your peace of mind.

The tragedy is, when you've got sex in your head, instead of down where it belongs, and when you have to go on copulating with your ears and your nose.

Silence is the parent of wise thoughts, — the mark of a well composed mind.

As I was sitting in my chair I knew the bottom wasn't there. Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.

Sleeplessness comes when our thoughts outweigh the night.

I finally understood that I didn't lack pen and paper but my own memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking, a great human gift disowned.

Dirac said nothing to his fellow pedestrians, but Kierkegaard would startle some of them by interrogating them about some subject on his mind, following in the tradition of Socrates, whom he called 'the virtuoso of the casual encounter'.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

It is one of the joys of studying history that first impressions are always wrong. Truth is proverbially stranger than fiction, but only because no guiding mind has contrived to make it credible.

How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

Hamlet's mother says to Hamlet, "Why seems it so particular with thee?" What is the difference between belief and make-belief? What makes us give to any one belief (since it is only a matter of shifting, tuning the mind) the peculiar weight of actuality? "For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.