Quotes About Mind

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

Just as the absence of clouds does not mean the end of the sky, neither is an empty mind the end of knowing.

In other words there is something otherworldly about our existence here --something more than matter, more than the body and mind we have been discussing -- in short, something fundamentally and profoundly abstract. And I mention this aspect because it is not at all obvious, indeed scarcely notices by the great majority of us as we go about our daily lives.

And the people believe, because Julian lets them believe... he does not force, suggest, tease, prod -- he lets them believe, he draws margins over which he knows their minds can jump, he unscrews hinges on all the doors.

The crucial thing here is not to listen to your mind. Your mind has got its basic communication lines crossed. If you try to fly in this flak you will shoot down your own aircraft. Keep close to yourself...fly under your own radar. Let the anti-aircraft guns discharge their ammunition into the plaid sky. Steal home, undetected even by yourself. Whatever you do, in this state, don't think.

El olvido es ahora la especialidad de su memoria.

The more I anoint the more my mind adheres physically to the mysterious fabric of love. I am decutie . Worn thin. You know that word?

You show me ten men who cherish some religious doctrine or political ideology, and I'll show you nine men whose minds are utterly impervious to any factual evidence which contradicts their beliefs, and who regard the producer of such evidence as a criminal who ought to be suppressed.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before. Steven Wright

John Henry Newman, poet and priest, wrote that "time is not a common property; / But what is long is short, and swift is slow/And near is distant, as received and grasped / By this mind and by that, / And every one is standard of his own chronology.

Still, to understand how the human mind sorts through the chaos of perception, surely one would need to understand how disorder can produce universality.

The photographer was lost for riposte, obvious though it should have been; instead he turned to run. At least his mind did. In fact, his mind had already scooted down the Broad Walk and was clambering over the railings at the end, whereas his body had remained rooted to the spot. With some effort he looked down at his feet as if to reprimand them. They refused to take notice.

mind. So much for Herriot as a judge of character. I couldn't have been more wrong, but Paul had fought his secret battle with a courage which had deceived everybody.

the connection between psychology and literature, to suggest their interchangeability.

My friend, it is not an arduous task that I bequeath, for our order knows only silken bonds. To be gentle and patient, to care for the riches of the mind, to preside in wisdom and secrecy while the storm rages without — it will all be very pleasantly simple for you, and you will doubtless find great happiness.

He was, and he knew it, very quietly in love with the little Manchu. His love demanded nothing, not even reply; it was a tribute of the mind, to which his senses added only a flavor.

I will never be bored as long as my thoughts are with me.

I simply will never be bored as long as my thoughts are with me.

Sometimes our mind picks some very bad times to take a walk, doesn't it?

The secret of life, Is not what you speak, it's what you whisper to yourself.