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Quotes About Mind

The moment we realise our place as insignificant, we can use our human power of the mind to build something of significance and this is what I intend to achieve; all that I wish to do is to create to contribute and to be remembered for my contribution to humanity's progression.
~ Unknown
There was an enlightenment in my mind, and too now, enlighten the world will I.
~ Unknown
To be known for anything, but my mind would be a catastrophic legacy, in my mind.
~ Unknown
To imagine is oh so better than to know, yet too, so very inferior.
~ Unknown
To think is wondrous, but to constantly repeat such, is dangerous.
~ Unknown
Your heart will get you into trouble, but your strong mind will get you out of it.
~ Unknown
I know your sick and tired of arguing But you can't keep it bottled in Jealousy, we got to swallow it Your heart and mind baby follow it Smile, happiness you could model it And when you feel opposite I just want you to know Your whole being is beautiful I'ma do the best I can do Cause I'm my best when I'm with you
~ Common
She wanders on like a poplar leaf borne upon a whirlwind of unconscious associations, she, her youth, her illusions and her former happiness remembered now through the mists of a ruined mind.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Les hallucinations dangereuses peuvent venir le jour ; mais, elles viennent surtout la nuit.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
mais, mets-te le dans la tête, pour ne jamais l'oublier : les loups et les agneaux ne se regardent pas avec des yeux doux. » Que me fallait-il donc, à moi, qui rejetais, avec tant de dégoût, ce qu'il y avait de plus beau dans l'humanité! ce qu'il me fal-lait, je n'aurais pas su le dire. Je n'étais pas encore habitué à me rendre un compte rigou-reux des phénomènes de mon esprit, au moyen des méthodes que recommande la philosophie.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
~ Conan Doyle
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
~ Confucius
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
~ Confucius
Anger and bitterness can be like weeds. If you let them grow, pretty soon they take over and there ain't room for nothing else.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Conrad Black
Emotions and irrational thoughts tend to cloud our mind. They make our mind foggy so we can't think in the ways we should when situations arise. When our minds become cloudy, we don't always think before we act or speak. Instead, we act irrationally and sometimes quickly, which could easily make the situation worse.
~ Unknown
The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.
~ Constantin Stanislavski
Voices" Ideal and dearly beloved voices of those who are dead, or of those who are lost to us like the dead. Sometimes they speak to us in our dreams; sometimes in thought the mind hears them. And for a moment with their echo other echoes return from the first poetry of our lives — like music that extinguishes the far-off night.
~ Constantinos P. Cavafis
Ideal voices and beloved of those who have died, or of those who are lost to us like the dead. Sometimes, within our dreams, they speak; sometimes the mind can hear them in our thoughts. And with their sound for an instant return sounds from the early poetry of our lifelike music in the night, faraway, that fades.
~ Unknown
Our minds, society and neurosexism create difference. Together, they wire gender. But the wiring is soft, not hard. It is flexible, malleable and changeable. And, if we only believe this, it will continue to unravel.
~ Unknown
She is a cat," he thought. "That's all she is—a cat!" But that was not how his mind saw her—quick beyond all dreams of speed, sharp, clever, unbelievably graceful, beautiful, wordless and undemanding. Where would he ever find a woman who could compare with her?
~ Cordwainer Smith
The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
~ Corliss Lamont
Fear kills everything. Your mind, your heart, your imagination.
~ Cornelia Funke
Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.
~ Cornelia Funke