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Quotes About Mind

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus
Con te qualsiasi discorso psicologico è psicoillogico.
~ Tiziano Sclavi
Infatti mi sono sempre chiesto come fai, a essere così miracolosamente immune dai travagli dell'intelligenza
~ Tiziano Sclavi
Del corpo ne abbiamo fatto un'ossessione, ma il corpo non siamo noi.
~ Tiziano Terzani
C'è un discorso che Gandhi fa nel 1909 in cui si guarda attorno e si chiede «Cos'è la vera civiltà? La civiltà nasce da un tipo di comportamento che indica all'uomo il sentiero del dovere [...], l'osservanza della moralità. Raggiungere la moralità significa raggiungere la padronanza della nostra mente e delle nostre passioni».
~ Tiziano Terzani
Prostota jest ogromn? pomoc? przy porz?dkowaniu my?li.
~ Tiziano Terzani
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
~ Tobias Wolff
He is healthy, physically, his body is fine. But his mind, well, it seems he encountered realities greater than he could bear. Many people need the certainty of solid walls and clear windows, but then they meet mysteries they cannot solve." The priest knew this all too well. "Yes, there are many." "And when they envelop and overwhelm you, well, if you are not prepared…" He gestured toward Bemm.
~ Toby Barlow
Imagine your fears are particles of dust," he said. "Pinpoint each one individually and narrow your mind onto that minuscule piece. And then, Paul, then you can examine it. It is so small it cannot hurt you.
~ Tod Goldberg
All things have the appearance of solidity, but it's an illusion, a trick of perception drawn from our eternal entrapment in the present.
~ Todd Lockwood
One of the characteristics of the mind is that it is always expecting something, chasing after something it wants or retreating from or resisting something is doesn't want.
~ Toinette Lippe
As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.
~ Tom Araya
Education is not just about memorizing facts and figures, but about developing the skills and habits of mind that enable us to become lifelong learners and responsible global citizens.
~ Tom Bilyeu
As soon as you remember, the spiritual mind, your Inner Vision, is satisfied and there is no longer tension. When the tension is gone, the answer is yes. When the tension is there, the answer is no.
~ Tom Brown Jr.
While Sigmund famously focused on the unconscious (the id), Anna made the ego seem more important, particularly in respect of therapy and psychoanalysis. Her
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
In the 1950s, American psychology was dominated by the behaviorists, whose endless experiments with lab rats aimed to show how easily the mammalian mind was shaped by its environment. Harlow
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
Psychology is the science of mental life." William James
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
It emerged from two other disciplines, physiology and philosophy. German Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) is seen as the father of psychology because he insisted it should be a separate discipline, more empirical than philosophy and more focused on the mind than physiology. In the 1870s he created the first experimental psychology laboratory, and wrote his huge work Principles of Physiological Psychology.
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
11 Jerome Bruner Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture (1990) A founder of cognitive psychology argues for a model of the mind based on the creation of meaning rather than computational processing.
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
The lateral thinking concept emerged from de Bono's study of how the mind works. He found that the brain is not best understood as a computer; rather, it is "a special environment which allows information to organize itself into patterns." The mind continually looks for patterns, thinks in terms of patterns, and is self-organizing, incorporating new information in terms of what it already knows. Given
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
Freud believed human beings to be wholly driven by the stirrings of the unconscious mind, but Adler saw us as social beings who create a style of life in response to the environment and to what we feel we lack. Individuals
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
William James defined psychology as the science of mental life, but it could equally be defined as the science of human nature.
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
Freud believed human beings to be wholly driven by the stirrings of the unconscious mind, but Adler saw us as social beings who create a style of life in response to the environment and to what we feel we lack.
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
Science requires a rational audience.
~ Tom Crewe