Quotes About Mind

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would question a Window concerning a Sight. I look thru' it not with it.

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.

old Google Glass monitored what people watched; now Google Everywhere monitors what they think. Although Glass came to know Scoble better than even his spouse, Everywhere knows him better than he knows himself.

Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.

What is reality?" - "One of the many possible illusions.

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I'll keep that in mind. I'll be of good cheer.

He felt disgruntled and obscurely let down at having paid good money to discover that the vision that had so irradiated his consciousness was a second-hand one. On the other hand, he told himself, probably it was better to hear that a phantom memory had come floating up out of some lecture of his student days than to be informed that he was going out of his mind.

There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the State. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

Dreaming is an advanced evolutionary exercise, a way the brain can go on an extended journey into that other reality.

Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.

The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.

The most fundamental of context effects is the principle of contrast. The principle relies on the fact that human minds magnify differences: when two relatively similar stimuli are placed next to each other, they'll be perceived as more different from each other than they actually are. Contrast is not only the most basic of context effects but probably the easiest to achieve. "I don't paint things," Matisse said. "I only paint the difference between things.

At last I was King, King by my right in Hastur, King because I knew the mystery of the Hyades, and my mind had sounded the depths of the Lake of Hali. I was King! The first grey pencillings of dawn would raise a tempest which would shake two hemispheres.

Our embodied and relational minds are the source of our selves, serving to limit and liberate who we become. When any of a combination of challenges to our minds bombards our development, conflicts may arise that bring great suffering and stifle our sense of freedom and connection.

The human mind isn't naturally programmed to comprehend spiritual experiences.

Completely give up even concentration, and hold nothing in your mind: you are verily the Self, and therefore free.

It is thoughts that make all the difference between the stillness of sleep and the turmoil upon waking.

So, there is really no entity by the name of [my] "mind";