Quotes About Mind

Thought creates character.

As with visual illusions, we can't make our minds work differently than they do no matter how smart we are. Just as we can't unsee an illusion, intellect or willpower alone can't make us resist motivated reasoning.

Once we are in a group that regularly reinforces exploratory thought, the routine becomes reflexive, running on its own. Exploratory thought becomes a new habit of mind, the new routine, and one that is self-reinforced.

Making more rational decisions isn't just a matter of willpower or consciously handling more decisions in deliberative mind. Our deliberative capacity is already maxed out. We don't have the option, once we recognize the problem, of merely shifting the work to a different part of the brain, as if you hurt your back lifting boxes and shifted to relying on your leg muscles.

Son corps est jeune et sa pensée vieille.

What we shouldn't do is keep our thoughts inside our heads, inert, unchanged by encounters with the world beyond the skull.

When thought overwhelms the mind, the mind uses the world," psychologist Barbara Tversky has observed.

Once we recognize this possibility, we can deliberately shape the material worlds in which we learn and work to facilitate mental extension—to enhance "the cognitive congeniality of a space," in the words of David Kirsh, a professor at the University of California, San Diego.

such as the one encapsulated in the seventh principle: whenever possible, we should manage our thinking by generating cognitive loops.

The first set of principles lays out some habits of mind we would do well to adopt, starting with this one: whenever possible, we should offload information, externalize it, move it out of our heads and into the world.

Philosopher Andy Clark, observing the progressive delegation of our mental operations to our devices, has noted that "the mind is just less and less in the head" these days. More than that, the mind must be less and less in the head, and more and more emblazoned on the world, if we are to extend our minds with the minds of others.

Concluded Helga and Tony Noice in one of their academic articles, "One might paraphrase Descartes and say, 'I move, therefore I remember.'

The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.

Maya is a projection of consciousness, but not consciousness itself.

Our culture, so proud of its mind-over-matter philosophy, cuts us off from our bodily experience and from the earth itself. In this severance, our sexuality is negated, our senses assaulted, our environment abused, and our power manipulated. Our ground is our form, and without it we lose our individuality.

Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.

Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit.

Aging is a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

It is important to be passionate, but it is also important to combine the heart and the head. I have made mistakes in both my private and professional lives.

Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.