Quotes About Mind

Piaget subscribed to the ordering and organizing function of the mind, but he believed that the forms and categories are not a priori but undergo development as a result of the subject's interaction with the world (OI, pp. 376–395).

Baillargeon's theory conceptualizes the mind as passive and relations between infants and the world as external, whereas Piaget's theory conceptualizes the mind as active and the relation between infant and world as internal.

Kant argued that the mind has both receptive capacities and spontaneous capabilities, both operative in human knowledge. For Kant (1787/1933, B74, B93), knowledge has its origin in sensory capacities to receive representations and in intellectual capabilities for knowing objects through them.

the main problem of any epistemology is in fact to understand how the mind succeeds in constructing necessary relationships, which appear to be independent of time, if the instruments of thought are merely psychological operations that are subject to evolution and are constituted in time (Piaget, 1950, p. 23);

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.

If you have a mind at peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door that opens wide upon a lovely garden

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.

Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it

Krishna consciousness is not something imposed on the mind. On the contrary, it's already inside of each of us, waiting to come out, like fire in a match. Chanting Hare Krishna brings out that natural, pure state of mind.

Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.

Indecision is a common cause for indigestion.

Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places.

Intelligence is the only unlimited natural resource

A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.

Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.

Out of sight not out of mind for we walk by faith not by mind

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.

Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.

The heart never takes the place of the head: But it can, and should, obey it.