Quotes About Mind

I very rarely think in words at all

El valor de una educación universitaria no es el aprendizaje de muchos datos, sino el entrenamiento de la mente para pensar

The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified . . . It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.55 One

Causality expresses the pattern which the mind imposes on a sequence of events in order to make their appearance comprehensible.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.55

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention, writing has transformed human consciousness.

Technologies are not mere exterior aids but also interior transformations of consciousness and never more than when they affect the word.

We cannot begin to discover the mind as long as we ignore the irrational and subterranean springs of behaviour as well as thought.

Thoughts are thoughts and that's all they are.

I could see tall ideas standing up behind his eyes.

Something about the structure of my brain, its associative, porous, open-endedness, was defenseless against the ever-enlarging Web. Every video, news story, photo, email, stock chart, sexy picture, and five-day weather forecast was an enticement to step into the forest, and once I was two or three bread crumbs down the path, the witches had me, I was in their oven.

Journeys are fundamentally the same: they begin in the mind, with the image or the story that inspires them in the first place, and finish in the world.

I think it's some kind of meeting of energies that causes what we see, and that part of those energies emanate from our lifeforces, our minds.

I smiled and unraveled a plan that some strategic command at the back of my mind had been hatching while the woman in me made love to Rosetta Jeanette Lawson in the guise of a man.

Her experience in life was limited and so she fought battles in an imaginary arena

It was a reminder that the most desperate battles are fought in our hearts and souls, and that death is only one final trick of the mind.

as well as in our own thoughts—the way one realization will suddenly overwhelm everything else, to be, in turn, replaced by yet another.

So it seems to me that our rate of blinking is somehow geared more to our emotional state and to the nature and frequency of our thoughts than to the atmospheric environment we happen to find ourselves in.

the blink is either something that helps an internal separation of thought to take place, or it is an involuntary reflex accompanying the mental separation that is taking place anyway.

That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds onmipotence and onmiscience.

An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience.