Quotes About Mind

The gift of phrase was instantaneous in him, and that must partly account for his huge output; but there was a plentitude of mind as well as a swiftness of phrase to help him; he never put a nib wrong.

The only real elegance is in the mind; If you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

I can't even hear what I'm thinking most of the time. My brain's noisy.

He's got a great but unorganized mind

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

Supposedly, guys think about sex every eight seconds. If that's true, how can they talk to their grandmothers?

Armour …' mused Whirrun, licking a finger and scrubbing some speck of dirt from the pommel of his sword, 'is part of a state of mind … in which you admit the possibility … of being hit.

A man doesn't put on a mask unless he's got some dark work in mind.

if you think about one memory for most of a day, is that not your present? Some people live in the now; some people prefer to reside in the past—either choice is valid.

Then he bites an O in half and wills himself to remember nothing, think nothing, until all that exists is a flatness - a flatness he now identifies as himself.

But a terror of this nature, as it occupies and expands the mind, and elevates it to high expectation, is purely sublime, and leads us, by a kind of fascination, to seek even the object, from which we appear to shrink

Her mind, long harassed by distress, now yielded to imaginary terrors.

It is well-known, that a weak mind, rather than have such a suffering, will turn aside, and take shelter in willing credulity to its first opinion; a strong one, meeting the worst at once, will proceed straight forward, and, freeing itself from an uncertainty, will do both that, which is just towards others, and, in the end, best for its own ease.

When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.

Conquer such whims, and endeavor to strengthen your mind. No existence is more contemptible than that, which is embittered by fear.

Most of the monsters men fear are in their minds. They would vanish like smoke if we would only let them.

Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.

Teachers are learning that what they first, last and always are to keep steadily before their attention is the mind of the pupil, and the effects produced on that mind by the facts of reasoning presented, not the facts themselves.

The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be filled, so we dream forever of those who are no longer here. Our minds make them live again.

My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.

There are certain shocks which, if sufficiently strong, seem to have power to destroy the balance of life. Such a shock would seem to overthrow all the intricate, vital, slowly developed mechanism of mind, to plunge the victim into a chaotic half-world of confusion and loss. This is what had happened to Anna.

1]The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. 2]But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith. 3]We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

not since I sacrificed the word love for the thing have I fought such a mind in my war.