Quotes About Mind

How shall the mind keep warm save at spectral fires--how thrive but by the light of paradox?

The Protean Alternative I have stressed the pervasiveness and danger of cultism, but that does not mean it must dominate our future. We are capable of alternatives—even antidotes—that stem from the very structure of the human mind. One such alternative is what I call the protean self, a view of the self as always in process; as being many-sided rather than monolithic, and resilient rather than fixed.

You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you? Elayne asked. I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.

Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.

A thousand stories had painted cities in his mind, the great cities of kings and queens, of thrones and powers and legends, and Caemlyn fit into those mind-deep pictures and water fits into a jug.

Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!

Kittens tangle your yarn, men tangle your wits, and it's simple as breathing for both.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

As she spoke, the dice started tumbling inside his head.

Beauty flees,"[...]Will you no longer be you? Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.

I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad.

Looking a queen is not enough, her mother had told her often, but a fine mind, a keen grasp of affairs, and a brave heart will go for nothing if people do not see you as a queen.

memory expanded what it did not shrink.

A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know," Bair had told her once.

You can do nothing with the One Power when emotion rules your mind.

Nothing was more dangerous for the sanity of men than a woman with too much time on her hands.

Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.

Think, if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

La victoria aclara ideas y borra muchas indecisiones en la mente de la mayoría de los hombres.

A full stomach at midday made for a dull head in the afternoon

Funny how being scared takes you. You think strange things.

Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it—fear, hate, anger—until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything

The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind.