Quotes About Mind

The mind is not sex-typed.

We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who is to choose wisely must be healthy in mind and body. The children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

The crazy part of my mind is like a mischievous pet I have to keep watch over or it might behave badly while I'm not paying attention.

Holmes gets like this when facing an interesting problem. Pay him no mind. He is not deliberately being rude." I could not forebear smiling a little. "When he is deliberately being rude you will know about it. You and everyone else in the general vicinity.

If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our minds left behind in battle.

My mind soars and whirls in a dance of wild fear and graceful hope.

That is how I think of peace and peace of mind—as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.

It is not by chance that there exists in Haiti the myth of the zombi, that is, of the living-dead, the man whose mind and soul have been stolen and who has been left only the ability to work… The history of colonization is the process of man's general zombification. It is also the quest for a revitalizing salt capable of restring to man the use of his imagination and his culture

All day you have been on my mind, a steam iron pressing the convolutions from my cortex, ironing me flat. Worrying cooks my cells feverish. I am irritable with love boiling into anxiety, till I grow furious with you, lying under the surgeon's knife.

Jolly sensible of you. There always is a moment when one makes up one's mind about these things, and then it's much tidier to act at once.

I always understood that the idea of education was to get one's mind as sharp as it will come before the party starts. Once the heart gets going you need all the wits you've got, my goodness.

a person should always put his heart in order before falling asleep. Then he will be unencumbered by fear.

My father told me that a person should always put his heart in order before falling asleep. Then he will be unencumbered by fear.

Time seemed to have just gone, in big clumps, or all the day was happening at once or something, I was wondering so hard about what was to come, I was watching so hard the differences from our normal days. I wished I had more time to think, before she went right down, all the way down; my mind was going breathless, trying to get all its thinking done.

Magic is a convenient word for a whole collection of techniques, all of which involve the mind. In this case, we might conceive of these techniques as including the mobilization of confidence, will, and emotion brought about by the recognition of necessity; the use of imaginative faculties, particularly the ability to visualize, in order to begin to understand how other beings function in nature so we can use this knowledge to achieve necessary ends.

As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.

She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.

Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do.

Vertigo, that's where I am. Pi wants to take over, but I don't let it. Looping wants to occur, but I remain sentient, and I don't do any of the various forms of out-freaking I want to do.

Die Ganzheit ist eine Wunschvorstellung der Nervenzerrüttung.

Don't let it rule you: it will ruin you...

I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.

Reigning over the worlds in your brain – that's a true prerogative of rational existence…