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Quotes About Mind

He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.
~ Louis L'Amour
The mind is a basket . . . if you put nothing in, you get nothing out.
~ Louis L'Amour
What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.
~ Louis L'Amour
A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first
~ Louis L'Amour
The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.
~ Louis L'Amour
You are an educated man, Old One.' 'What is education besides a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life? There are many kinds of education, and often education closes as many doors as it opens for to believe implies disbelief. One accepts one kind of belief but closes the mind to all that is, or seems to be contradictory.
~ Louis L'Amour
The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing it against a time of need, then suddenly it bursts into awareness, which men call inspiration or second sight or a gift.
~ Louis L'Amour
be wary of evidence given by others, for in all evidence there is some interpretation. The eyes see, the mind explains. But does the mind explain correctly? The mind only has what experience and education have given it, and perhaps that is not enough. Because one has seen does not mean one knows.
~ Louis L'Amour
A man often creates an image of a girl in his mind but when it comes right down to it that's the only place the girl exists.
~ Louis L'Amour
And as far as trails go, there's always an open trail for the mind if you keep the doors open and give it a chance.
~ Louis L'Amour
The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to mind is yours forever.
~ Louis L'Amour
You would be wise he agreed, To go to Cordoba or Toledo. The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is forever.
~ Louis L'Amour
If I were asked what education should give, I would say it should offer breadth of view, ease of understanding, tolerance for others, and a background from which the mind can explore in any direction.
~ Louis L'Amour
Sakim had taught me to be wary of evidence given by others, for in all evidence there is some interpretation. The eyes see, the mind explains. But does the mind explain correctly? The mind only has what experience and education have given it, and perhaps that is not enough. Because one has seen does not mean one knows.
~ Louis L'Amour
He did not like to admit that he might be in error, and he was also an optimistic planner: he expected the breaks to go his way. This, she remembered having heard, was true of the criminal mind;
~ Louis L'Amour
The idea of love, while always in her mind, had never become quite real to her.
~ Louis L'Amour
When one lies awake in the night one thinks of many things, and I thought now.
~ Louis L'Amour
for in all evidence there is some interpretation. The eyes see, the mind explains. But does the mind explain correctly? The mind only has what experience and education have given it, and perhaps that is not enough. Because one has seen does not mean one knows.
~ Louis L'Amour
organized study deadens the mind, and that genuine insight arises spontaneously from the individual soul.
~ Louis Menand
The bad stuff always rose to the top of the brain.
~ Louis Sachar
Take a train, peanut brain
~ Louis Sachar
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that's all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you'll make it a better place.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…
~ Louisa May Alcott