Quotes About Mind

The implication of this is that the mind's possibilities are limited by its concept of its potential.

The scent of the sea, a wild turbulent storm, crashing into her mind. Elena, why is Dmitri naked?

Are you sane, Mother? Laughter in his mind, painful in its familiarity. Is any immortal every truly sane?

Finished playing your sex games?" she asked point-blank. "I wasn't doing anything to your mind, Elena. Not that time." Oh, shit.

I've changed my mind," through harsh, whistling breaths. "I think I'll make her into my pet in your stead." "Sahara!" A rage of sound. "I'll come for you! Survive! Survive for me!" They were the last words she heard before her mind went black.

The brain was the single thing that remained sacred among the Psy. To rewire that would equal the erasure of the individual, making the PsyNet a true hive mind.

He'd survived, his mind strong. Others...others were broken. The healing process was going to be a long one, but Judd had pledged himself to it That thought in mind, he headed to his room to wash up before going to Brenna. Not seeing her wasn't an option...

wanting her mind off the one subject that held the potential to destroy the bond between them. If she ran, he hoped she would do as he'd asked and make sure she didn't leave him alive. Because without Sahara, the world would learn what a child became when his trainer wove nightmares into his mind—of knives slicing into flesh, of women begging for their lives—then put the blade into his hand.

The Psy race's greatest advantage was the mind; the changelings', the body.

the E designation. We heal the mind and the heart. Sorrow, fear, pain, we help people navigate their way out of darkness.

Ten years was a long time for evidence to age and fade. For flesh to disappear. For everyone to forget that Nina Parvati Rai had been a living, breathing woman who'd loved music and cooking and had a mind like a computer. In another life she could have been a professor. In this life she'd been a rich man's wife. Now she was just bones.

Elena didn't look away—she'd rather face death than have her mind invaded, for what was that if not another form of crawling?

To see such a glorious mind as his overthrown—it is something you never forget.

hard work is still peace compared to what can worry a person on the inside.

Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than gold: extraordinary thinking.

I know the tendency of the human mind is to do anything rather than think. But mental labor is not thought, and those who have with labor acquired the habit of application often find it much easier to get up a formula than to master a principle.

Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.

The only way Christ's Life can be shown forth is by first "putting off" our ungodly thoughts and emotions and then "putting on" the Mind of Christ.

When I read a novel I am not here. I am transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on the page, busy with a scene being played out in my mind's eye, with my ears engaged, hearing the voices carry from the pen to the present. What a lovely place to be—not here.

Materialists thereby deny the reality of mind (while they use their minds to advance materialism), determinists deny the reality of human choice (while they choose determinism), and relativists deny the fact of right and wrong (while they judge you if you disagree).

Because all things were created by a single divine mind, all truth forms a single, coherent, mutually consistent system. Truth is unified and universal.

Christianity explains why truth is not merely a human construction. The world is not a creation of my own mind. It is the handiwork of God. The human mind cannot usurp the Creator's role and function. The biblical concept of creation gives logical grounds to support what humans inescapably conclude by experience from the time we are toddlers.

The reason we are justified in trusting our minds is that God designed them to "fit" the world he created.

The core of the evolution controversy can thus be phrased in simple terms: Did mind create matter? Or did matter give rise to mind? According to a theistic worldview, mind is primary. It is the fundamental creative force in the universe (whether God created the world quickly by fiat or slowly by a gradual process). Darwin reversed things. According to his theory, matter is the primary creative force, and mind emerged only very late in evolutionary history.10