Quotes About Mind

I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.

I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.

I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

I think - I know - the normalization of drag and drag culture has definitely opened up people's minds in some parts of the world.

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.

I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

Modeling is an incredible job for a girl if she approaches it with her head on her shoulders. You travel, you speak to people, and it opens your mind to different things.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Silently we went round and round, And through each hollow mind The memory of dreadful things Rushed like a dreadful wind, And horror stalked before each man, And terror crept behind.

But strange that I was not told That the brain can hold In a tiny ivory cell God's heaven and hell.

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

Nothing is more evident than that Nature hates mind. Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

We all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.