Quotes About Mind

Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

A strong body makes the mind strong... I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.

The faculties of the mind itself have never yet been distinguished and defined, with satisfactory precision, by all the efforts of the most acute and metaphysical philosophers. Sense, perception, judgment, desire, volition, memory, imagination, are found to be separated by such delicate shades and minute gradations that their boundaries have eluded the most subtle investigations, and remain a pregnant source of ingenious disquisition and controversy.

Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind

Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.

psyche and soma [are] two aspects of a unitary process, one mental and the other physical, much like the head and tail faces of a coin. Whatever one does with the coin affects both sides simultaneously.

Mabel Elsworth Todd,The Thinking Body,

intellectualized insight alone is not sufficient to result in positive changes.

Diaries teach us that it is too much to be inside anybody's head. It is a horrible place. All that repetition; that endless analysis that doesn't analyze, just mulls a point over and over until it drops dead from banality.

We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come:Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

'Tis education forms the common mind:Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; Mary: How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!

Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

Alone can rival, can succeed to thee. How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Brilho eterno de uma mente sem lembranças. Toda prece é ouvida, toda graça se alcança.

His anguished mind writhed with contradictions. He was a man of parts and halfs, in a time of wholes and absolutes.