Quotes About Mind

For the root of genius is in the unconscious, not the conscious, mind. It is not by weighing, balancing, trimming, expanding with conscious intention, that an excellent piece of art is born. It takes its shape and has its origin outside the region of the conscious intellect. There is much that the conscious can do, but it cannot provide you with genius, or with the talent that is genius' second cousin.

Confident, steady, freely-flowing action is what we need. Then safe delight begins. The mind, cleared of its doubts, begins to expand and enjoy its own activity; the rewards of satisfactory action begin to show themselves.

Our spirituality is our capacity to relate to God, to other human beings, and to the natural world. Through these relationships, we give meaning to our experience and attune our hearts and minds to the deepest dimensions of reality.

Love is a commandment, Father Hugo said. It is a choice, a preference. If we love God with our whole hearts, how much heart have we left? If we love with our whole mind and soul and strength, how much mind and soul and strength have we left? We must live this life now. Death changes nothing. If we do not learn to enjoy God now we never will. If we do not learn to praise Him and thank Him and rejoice in Him now, we never will.

It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.

I prize freedom of the mind above freedom of the body.

my subconscious so full it must spill over

But feelings aren't like thoughts, they can't be changed at will.

É o que faz a mente humana, descobre provas para apoiar aquilo em que acreditamos.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damned things.

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

You write the script, you get to make the choices, and you get to change your mind, too.

all life is conscious, but it is not conscious of being conscious

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the Universe and move bits of it about.

Time is bunk.

Dreams were not messengers from the spirit world. They were simply the detritus of the brain's random firings during REM sleep.

My mind was red paint across black night.

Eroticize intelligence.

was reality? Was anything real? Didn't every schizophrenic convince themselves that their reality was self-consistent and rational?

The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind." —James D. Watson, Nobel Laureate and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.

Intuition is just your subconscious putting together subtle clues and coming to a conclusion that your conscious mind hasn't quite reached. Since

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind." —Rod Serling, opening narration, season two (and perhaps the better known version)