Quotes About Mind

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality.

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

What is thinkable is also possible.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

Chess is imagination.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Memory feeds imagination.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.