Quotes About Mind

And, remember, fundamentally a thing is what it is; we live in a universe where everything—including a human mind and body—has a specific, clear-cut identity and can be nothing else. A human being is not a dog, a cat, a bird, a fish, a computer chip, or a stream of photons—"A is A" and man is man.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

What worries you masters you.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

It is so much easier to believe than to think; it is astounding how much more believing is done than thinking.

began using that door. In 1880 Pasteur—who observed, "Chance favors the prepared mind"—

In 1880 Pasteur—who observed, "Chance favors the prepared mind"—

Yet of this massive flow of information no more than about 40 bits per second actually reaches consciousness. We are, in other words, conscious of only a trivial slice of all the information coming into the brain for processing.

thought itself is best understood as planning; even higher forms of thought, such as philosophy, the epitome of disembodied speculation, proceed, they argue, by hijacking algorithms originally developed to help us plan movements.

Consciousness, these experiments suggested, is merely a bystander observing a decision already taken, almost like watching ourselves on video.

feeling was an integral component of the machinery of reason.

Accordingly, no book can actually embody the knowledge of anything of philosophical importance; only a mind can do that, since only a mind can have this capacity to interpret and reinterpret its own understandings.

Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/

dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. / What matter where, if I be still the same...

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.