Quotes About Mind

A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind.' from a radio broadcast in 1947

Awww, 'tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads.

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that's much quieter.

Thinking is the ultimate human resource.

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill:

the historian's need of imaginative understanding for the minds of the people with whom he is dealing, for the thought behind their acts: I say imaginative understanding, not sympathy, lest sympathy should be supposed to imply agreement ... History cannot be written unless the historian can achieve some kind of contact with the mind of those about whom he is writing.

There was an Old Man with a beard, Who sat on a horse when he reared; But they said, Never mind! You will fall off behind, You propitious Old Man with a beard!

Never mind,' Gertchen said with a smile, 'you'll have to be pagan today.

What if memories were just memories, without any consolatory or persecutory power? Would they exist at all, or was it always emotional pressure that summoned images from what was potentially all of experience so far?

She tried to walk more slowly up the hill. God, her mind was racing, racing in neutral

An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did the girl rams do? Faint with pleasure? Clap their cloven hooves? Lean against some nearby boulders, with little tubs of mountain grass, discussing the battle?

The next thing that happened was that he forgot the last thing that happened.

Presumably those who enjoyed inflicting cruelty could hardly believe their luck and set about popularizing the superstition that their victims could only achieve peace of mind by forgiving them.' 'You

What state? A state of philosophical enquiry? I thought you would approve.

Shame is life-dominating and stubborn. Once entrenched in your heart and mind, it is a squatter that refuses to leave.

Addiction is bondage to the rule of a substance, activity, or state of mind, which then becomes the center of life, defending itself from the truth so that even bad consequences don't bring repentance, and leading to further estrangement from God.

Have you ever found yourself flirting with sexual temptation through a long gaze or sexual fantasies?

People say that things like this happen in slow motion, as though you suddenly become an astronaut in the antigravity chamber of your own life. This wasn't true for me. Things were speeding up instead, and I did my best to slow them down in my mind.

But how long will this kind of tolerance last? How long can anyone bear to live with someone whose mind wanders off to a place where their love no longer exists?

Children are apt to forget to remember.

There never was a truly great man, who was not a lover and encourager of learning, as of the highest improvement of the human mind

The human mind is generative, creative, proactive, and reflective -- not just reactive.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Reality i merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.