Quotes About Mind

I was brought up in a tradition of reading and thinking at university that, in a sense, left the body out. It was all about your mind. That good writing didn't have a "self" in it, didn't have an ego in it. Oh my God, I had so much to unlearn when I became a writer!

everything human is human because it is brought about through thinking, and for that reason alone."5

The human mind is capable of rationalizing any behavior.

the human mind is alike in every race and sect of people: when the danger isn't close enough, or when enough generations have passed so that the reality of hardship and persecution ceases to be real, the threats fade. They take on the quality of interesting fiction.

Offense is in the mind of the offended.

Age to me is in the mind. I've seen 70-year-olds who are already dead and 90-year-olds who can't stop themselves living. I stay young by refusing to be old.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

I don't mind the negative press. Well, actually, I do, but I try to ignore it. But it is really wearing out the family.

Time is truly an illusion of the mind.

There were no words passing through their minds, though the scene of violence did play and replay itself, and their own roles within it grew more heroic with the colorations that time will give to the simplest of events.

And even if fairies built a nest in the bottom of my garden and it should turn out that I have to live for a thousand years, there's not one of them when I'll be of a mind to trust you.

What counts is how many years you get before losing your marbles,

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life.

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

Each of us is a "cell" of the Absolute Mind. If we can expand our minds, we can tune into Absolute Mind, the Mind of God. We ourselves, if we can harness Absolute Mind, can become God.

The Absolute is Mind – this is the supreme definition of the Absolute." -- Hegel

Noise harms your body and boils your brain. The word "noise" derives from the Latin word nausea.

Of this his head was convinced, however doubtful his bowels.

In sex women are largely guided by their sensible bodies but men are driven crazy by their feverish minds. Men love to think and talk about sex; women enjoy it while it lasts, if they can, and have little interest in pre-match build-up or post-match analysis.

Dü?ünmenin alternatifi duygular de?il, dü?ünmemektir.

Hoe vaker een herinnering uit het geheugen wordt opgediept, hoe onnauwkeuriger de herinnering wordt.

Maybe you can only go back in your mind?

Removes Parts Of Someone's Memory

Absalom, Absalom! uses the fractured mind of a boy who seems already half-ghost to present the family history of "the son who widowed the daughter who had not yet been a bride." No one can read it quickly or even entirely with pleasure, but anyone who can hear its flowered dissonance will know that such books are why we read at all.