Quotes About Mind

It's intolerable that when someone is born into the world, he can't automatically come to consciousness.

Meine Wissenschaft gibt mir Wachträume, die andere nicht einmal im Schlafen haben." Peter Handke: Langsame Heimkehr. Erzählung. Frankfurt am Main 1994, S. 63.

A road trip frees the mind, revitalizes the spirit, and infuses the body with Dr Pepper and teriyaki jerky.

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

Even a slight ability to change oneself is more valuable than any power over the external universe. Metamorphosis is an exercise in willed restructuring of the mind.

La mente, una vez expandida, nunca puede volver a sus dimensiones originales».

None of this is ever going to change until each of us changes. The change has to come from us, and the object of that change is us. We have to change our hearts. And we have to change our minds. We have to stop thinking in terms of stereotypes and deal with people as people. We have to stop thinking in terms of narrow self-interest and begin to reclaim the idea of the common good.

The precision of existence can never be known by the human mind. That's why the goal of every woman and man is to become human, but the purpose of being human is to leave everything human behind. To discover this precision, one has to stop being a human and start being the mystery of life itself.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,

Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.

Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

Then I sent him this reply: “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”

Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:

Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?

Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.

For with one mind they plot together, they form an alliance against You—

The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.

A man is praised according to his wisdom, but a twisted mind is despised.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—