Quotes About Mind

Nor less I deem that there are PowersWhich of themselves our minds impress;That we can feed this mind of oursIn a wise passiveness.

Thou hast great allies;Thy friends are exultations, agonies,And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man...

What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how; instruct them how the mind of man becomes a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells...

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

I had melancholy thoughts... a strangeness in my mind, A feeling that I was not for that hour, Nor for that place.

One moment now may give us more Than fifty years of reason; Our minds shall drink at every pore The spirit of the season.

My gentle Reader, I perceive / How patiently you've waited, / And now I fear that you expect / Some tale will be related. / O Reader! had you in your mind / Such stores as silent thought can bring, / O gentle Reader! you would find / A tale in every thing.

For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this...

could have laugh'd myself to scorn, to find   In that decrepit Man so firm a mind.

In truth the prison unto which we doom ourselves no prison is

Mighty is the charm Of these abstractions to a mind beset With images, and haunted by herself And specially delightful unto me Was that clear synthesis built up aloft So gracefully.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants...

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

How Nature by extrinsic passion first / Peopled my mind with beauteous forms or grand' (Book I.)

When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind," said Peale, "which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

During the long healing process, I fell back on my Cherokee ways and adopted what our elders call "a Cherokee approach" to life. They say it is "being of good mind." That means one has to think positively, to take what is handed out and turn it into a better path.

It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.

Intuition? Yes, from experience I can say that's a kind of knowing that has no rationale, but just rises up your body, your mind, your whole being and lets you know.

every one of us has a constant stream of images going through our heads, which we usually don't even notice

they think the image must remain in their conscious view the whole time they're describing it. Not so. Even if the image flickers for a second and disappears, you can still keep describing it from memory, just as you described the Taj Mahal.

Whenever you squander attention on something that doesn't put your brain through its paces and stimulate change, your mind stagnates a little and life feels dull.

Many of us pray often, but we do not get the nourishment from our praying. This should not be so. We are not praying to an idol; we pray to the living God. He is the very God who is now in our spirit. When we speak to Him, He responds in our spirit. When we exercise our spirit, we realize Him within our spirit. If we merely exercise our mind and pray from our mouth, the Triune God within us has no way. He is not in our mind. but in our spirit. We must exercise our spirit (1 Tim. 4:7).