Quotes About Mind

The fact that changes in our gut affect our brain's response to negativity or emotionally stirring images is just mind-boggling. But it's also empowering. It means that what we put in our mouths and how we feed our gut bacteria do indeed affect our brain's functionality.

According to the latest research, we owe our tremendous brains to the need to think… and the need to run.

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Brain disease can be largely prevented through the choices you make in life.

The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. – Calvin Coolidge

Like my father, Donor White could hold in his head the incompatible demands of rationality and irrationality, of facts and love.

It testified, I suppose, to the genderless ferocity of her mind." "Why

In truth, blame is just another one of the negative programs that we have allowed our mind to buy because we never stopped to question it. Why must something always be someone's "fault"? Why must the whole concept of "wrong" be introduced to the situation in the first place? Why must one of us be wrong, bad, or at fault? What seemed like a good idea at the time may not have turned out well. That's all. Unfortunate events may have just happened

anger attracts angry thoughts.

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. – Alexander Pope

We all often think about what's easy to think about, rather than what's right to think about.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ANTHONY JAY

Trying to change other people's thinking appears to be one of the hardest tasks in the world. While the easy answer may seem to be to give people feedback, real change happens when people see things they have not seen before. The best way to help someone see something new is to help quiet her mind so that she can have a moment of insight. As you have insights, you change your brain, and by changing your brain you change your whole world.

Here's the thing: What I hold in my mind will, in time, show up in my face, for as George MacDonald once pointed out, the face is "the surface of the mind." If I cling to bitterness and resentment, if I tenaciously hold a grudge, if I fail to forgive, my countenance will begin to reflect those angry moods. My mother used to tell me that a mad look might someday freeze on my face. She was wiser than she knew.

But I'm still a bit edgy, so on the way to court, I stop at the Tara Foundation. Petting the dogs, throwing a tennis ball for them to fetch, things like that tend to relax me. The fact that their lives are so simple, their needs and their joys so obvious and uncomplicated, somehow helps clear my mind.

Chicago delighted me," he wrote, "because it was just as chaotic as my own mind, and I found my own preposterous state of consciousness reflected and exaggerated at every turn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that genius lies in "being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

I regard radio broadcasting as a sort of cleansing instrument for the mind, just as the bathtub is for the body.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

The kanji characters he chose to make up the name of his new company—nin-ten-do—could be understood as "Leave luck to heaven," or "Deep in the mind we have to do whatever we have to do.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds," Albert Einstein once said, "shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

Some people believe that explanations which do not involve matter are supernatural. In fact, material explanations are themselves supernatural. How can lifeless matter produce life? There's nothing natural about that. How can mindless matter produce mind? What's natural about that? How can temporal and contingent matter come into existence in the first place? You can't get existence from non-existence. That's logic 101.

Mind can easily explain matter. Matter cannot explain mind at all. How do you get to mind from mindless matter? It's impossible. But mind can create "matter", or what passes as matter, routinely. It does it every time we dream.

Light is massless, maximally time dilated and maximally length contracted. It's immaterial. It's mind! Light is the carrier wave of the universe. It's the universal, the absolute, condition regarding which all material particulars are relative. Light is the Singularity. Light is mind, light is life. Light is God. Light endures forever, meaning that life and mind endure forever. Light is absolute. It has an absolute speed. All particulars come from light.