Quotes About Mind

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

There is nothing higher than reason.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.

This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí', pensé; o más bien me acordé de ello.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

And yet fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself, and reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.

So as you begin your journey to secure a new opportunity, you must embrace two critical components: Adopt a healthy and positive outlook about how best to cope with and work through your job loss, as well as any of life's other unexpected bumps in the road. Master the 10 principles of success and the four emotional channeling techniques I will introduce later in this chapter to help you maintain a positive, healthy state of mind.

1. The brain uses images to help the conscious mind understand.

In the fool's mind, there are many choices; in the wise man's mind, there are few.

Counselees continually confuse learned behavior patterns with inherited nature (phusis). Counselors may take it as a rule that any quality of life, attitude of mind, or activity that God requires of man may be acquired through the Lord Jesus Christ.

All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.

We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn't cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly 'unnatural' way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.

The Hindu sage Ramakrishna once said that the mind is like fabric; it takes the color of the dye it's soaked in. Soak the mind in a quiet, relaxing environment and it will become quiet and relaxed. Soak it in floods of Facebook and, well.…

Consciousness is a dance between perception and memory.

I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.