Quotes About Mind

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Before making the hard decisions, always make sure your sanity is intact.

It is within my mind that this quarrel rages, an untidy battle whose frontiers I cannot measure.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the moments thereof are kept and preserved.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

Dios es lo más glorioso en lo que nuestras mentes pueden fijarse, lo más atrayente. Los pensamientos acerca de Él deberían tragarse otros pensamientos, ya que no son dignos ni de compartir con Él el mismo día.

Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Whereas the logical mode of thought can only manipulate the world view of given paradigm, intuition can inspire genuine creativity, since it is not shackled by the nagging analytical mind, which often serves only to intimidate imaginative thought.

That end is an intuitive realization of a single great insight—that we and the world around are one, both part of a larger encompassing absolute. Our rational intellect merely obscures this truth, and consequently we must shut it off, if only for a moment. Rationality constrains our mind; intuition releases it.

the ignorant and the simple minded, not knowing that the world is what is seen of Mind itself, cling to the multitudinousness of external objects, cling to the notions of being and non-being, oneness and otherness, bothness and not-bothness, existence and non-existence, eternity and non-eternity. . .

the things of this world are all a mental creation, since external phenomena are transient and only exist for us because of our perception. Consequently they are actually "created" by our mind (or, if you will, a more universal entity called Mind). Consequently they do not exist outside our mind and hence are a void. Yet the mind itself, which is the only thing real, is also a void since its thoughts cannot be located by the five senses.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.