Quotes About Mind

Perfection is only a standard set by the human mind as to what it desires.

Macht zit helemaal in je geest. Dat weet ik omdat ik de moeite heb genomen onderzoek te doen. Maar jij moppert maar wat aan met dingen die je niet begrijpt... Ik noem mezelf liever "sjamanes". - Claire

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

I had heard recently that there were those who thought coffee disturbed a woman's mind. I always found it rather sharpened mine. Perhaps that was the real objection to it.

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

Darkness is a result of disinterest in God, rebellion against Him, and unwillingness to do what He says. There is but one message that shines light into such darkness, refreshing hearts and minds: "Behold your God!

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

Reason is only one part of the souls economy and requires a balance of the other parts in order to function properly.

calma de espírito que suaviza a amargura.

Now at last we could gauge the range of the American Dirty Mind—and estimate the unfathomable depth of loneliness in America.

In our culture it is a woman's body which is considered important while it is a man's mind or his activities which are valued. A woman is sexy. A man is successful.

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

You're not going to believe this, but I had a crazy dream last night.

I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.

Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It's the body's physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind's way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass.

Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.

Don't let the glitter fool you." She wiggles her shiny nails in the air, then taps her temple. "I'm up here" "I see that," I say as Noah whispers a very soft, "I love you." "What?" Megan asks. "Nothing," Noah says, then pulls back and walks to the other side of the desk.

A mind is totally big enough to get lost inside - to go crazy if you're left with too much time and too much room to let your biggest fears run free.

One can only see what one observes, one observes only things which are already in the mind.

It has deprived that mind of the cardinal advantage of knowing the sublime meaning of the splendid Jewish-Christian Scriptures, which are a collection of ancient mythographic portrayals of spiritual truth, sadly and calamitously mistaken for history.

If my belief in other minds is rational, so is my belief in God.

Belief in the existence of God is in the same boat as belief in other minds, the past, and perceptual objects; in each case God has so constructed us that in the right circumstances we form the belief in question.

How could there be truths totally independent of minds or persons?... How could the things that are in fact true or false—propositions, let's say—exist in serene and majestic independence of persons and their means of apprehension? How could there be propositions no one has ever so much as grasped or thought of?