Quotes About Mind

Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten.

Having the competitive edge to be able to succeed is having control of your time, life and mind.

My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go into higher states of mind.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

When you hold positive thoughts and images in your mind, you raise your power level and you create a vibratory energy around those thoughts - those thoughts are more likely to manifest.

Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.

although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.

There are, indeed, some things which appear so impossible that the mind does not dwell on them for an instant.

She did this in order to distract her mind, that she might forget; and she only filled her head thus in order to alleviate the weight on her heart.

Time, which encrusts all physical substances with its mossy mantle, as it invests all things of the mind with forgetfulness, seemed to have respected these signs, which apparently had been made with some degree of regularity, and probably with a definite purpose

Nothing passes the time, or shortens the path, like a thought which engrosses all the faculties of an individual's organization. Our external existence is a sleep, of which this thought is the dream; and while we are subjected to its influence, time has no longer any measure, nor is there any distance in space. We leave one place and arrive at another, and are conscious of nothing between.

A father's sufferings may affect great changes in the mind of a son.

In all well-organized brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning.

In every well-organized mind the dominant idea - and there always is a dominant idea - is the one which, being the last to go to sleep, is also the first to shine among the newly awakened thoughts.

El niño es pequeño, y contiene al hombre; el cerebro es estrecho, y alberga al pensamiento; el ojo es sólo un punto, y abarca leguas.

ce qui frappe l'esprit capricieux du poète n'est pas toujours ce qui impressionne la masse des lecteurs.

Servono le sventure per scavare certe miniere misteriose nascoste nell'intelligenza umana; serve la pressione per far esplodere la polvere.

Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men a sort of instinctive distaste for what is ancient. In this respect aristocracy is far more favorable to poetry; for things commonly grow larger and more obscure as they are more remote; and, for this two-fold reason, they are better suited to the delineation of the ideal.

Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.

If a democratic state of society and democratic institutions do not stop the career of the human mind, they incontestably guide it in one direction in preference to another. Their effects, thus circumscribed, are still exceedingly great; and I trust I may be pardoned if I pause for a moment to survey them. We had occasion, in speaking of the philosophical method of the American people, to make several remarks which must here be turned to account.

In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; the one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other inclined to prohibit him from thinking at all.

One of the most familiar weaknesses of the human mind is the wish to reconcile contrary principles and buy peace at the expense of logic.