Quotes About Mind

He was mad with hope. In reasonable measure, hope sustains us. In great excess, it distorts perceptions, dulls the mind, corrupts the heart to no less an extent than does heroin.

This next one's by someone named Anatole France. 'To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.'

surely every human being on the planet had the same potential to be telepathic.

But no lie, regardless of how well intended, could deceive in telepathic communication

Carl Jung. He theorized, among other things, that mind and matter are entwined, that as individuals and as a community of minds, we can affect reality, even unconsciously create it.

You wanted it once. You don't go as far as wanting it and then not wanting it anymore. A man's mind doesn't work that way.

She realized then that madness and sanity were two worlds separated from each other by no more than a single step.

In the past ten years there had been truly amazing advances in those areas of research – psychopharmacology, biochemistry, psychosurgery, clinical psychology – that directly and indirectly contributed to the less reputable but nonetheless hotly pursued science of mind control.

She brought the brandy bottle and a glass to the table. She had read books in which characters had sat down with a fifth of booze and a heavy load of despair, determined to use the former to wash away the latter. Sometimes it worked for them, so maybe it would work for her. If brandy could improve her state of mind even marginally, she was prepared to drink the whole damn bottle.

mind, human and inhuman, in a rapture of blood lust and violence, will be an existence more horrific

It was mind that mattered, mind that cared, mind that loved, the best works of the mind that changed this hard world for the better

Fear is useful when it's on a leash, Avi once said, but it's always a bad dog when you let it run free in your mind.

no act of creation was finer or more beautiful than the creation of an intelligent mind.

eidetic memory

Her signature style is hyperrealism, an attempt to capture everything a photograph might and then much more: what the mind knows about a scene that the scene itself does not reveal; what the heart feels about the subject before it; how the past lives in the present and how the future looms real but unrevealed; what any moment on the Earth might mean, if it means anything at all.

Ganesh held up one hand. "There's more, and it suggests that tens of thousands of people, focused on the same expectation, can unwittingly affect reality and make that expectation come to pass.

meaningful coincidences reveal that our collective consciousness creates reality at least to some degree.

THAT WE SHOULD MEET IN THE WHIRL OF LIFE THAT spins more people apart than together, that we should find in each other so much that was compatible, that we should lift each other out of doubt and out of weakness into conviction and strength, that we should fall in love in spite of being unable to consummate it physically, a love that was of mind for mind, heart for heart, soul for soul: This rare gift was priceless.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts: the moonless midnight of our mind

the brain produced

All matter, when seen at its root, arises out of a base web that has all the characteristics of thought waves.

I'm not getting forgetful. I'm not that old. Yet first my slippers, now the door lock.

I wonder sometimes why those who theorize about the human mind can so easily believe in the existence of things they cannot see or measure, or in any meaningful way confirm as real—such as the id, the ego, the unconscious I—but nevertheless dismiss as superstitious those who believe the body has a soul.

But happiness is a condition of the mind, not of circumstances