Quotes About Mind

Nothing is real unless we look at it, and it ceases to be real as soon as we stop looking.

The M'Naghten Rule states: To establish a defense on the ground of insanity it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or if he did know it, that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong.

You've lost your mind. -Yes, and it's so liberating.

Her thoughts could not escape the present.

Of the five in their gang, there was no doubt in Denny's mind that Trey was

Nine days after Elizabeth first offered the interview, she changed her mind.

She reviewed her options and decided to return to Scotland. Her mind was made up within a month.

We have sought for devices that make us feel good without being good. We have tried to banish evil without quitting evil. In the end, we have sought peace of mind without moral price. Simply stated, we want the gifts of God without the need of God.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more. It brings the mind into form,—for the mind is like the body.

Wine is good in itself, but not for a man in a fever. If our souls were in perfect health, riches and authority, and strong powers of mind, would be very suitable to us: but they are weak and diseased, and require so great a grace of God to bear these advantages well, that we may be well content to be without them.

My brain is sending poison to my heart.

Dr. Gingrich, who was increasingly fascinated with the leaps of Mrs. Goodhall's mind, was still marveling over the confusing image of a nonpracticing homosexual; it struck him as a brilliant accusation to make of anyone who was slightly (or hugely) different.

If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps going; you can't shut it off.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't.

You don't choose your nightmares; they choose you.

Your disapproval is noted. It is legitimate. You are welcome to disapprove. But you are not welcome to be ignorant, to look the other way, to be unable to perform—should you change your mind.

Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Even before she started talking to Franny, I could see how desperately important this woman's private unhappiness was to her, and how—in her mind—the only credible reaction to the event of rape was hers. That someone else might have responded differently to a similar abuse only meant to her that the abuse couldn't possibly have been the same.

Imagining something is better than remembering something

His mind was closed to the possibility of a new story; there was no room in his heart for a new character of God's holy choosing, or for a new

Your memory is a monster; you forget -it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

He seemed only slightly intimidated by my muscles; he had an arrogance larger than most people's hearts and minds.

and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! Later, I would remember everything.