Quotes About Mind

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

By words the mind is winged.

The soul can not think without a picture.

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

In the human constitution, therefore, mind governs matter absolutely and despotically; but reason governs appetite with a far more limited sway.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

Law is mind without reason.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

If the power elite want to forget about pollution, and if they impose structural amnesia on a community, you need an omnipotent mind to remember how things once were. You needed, the Arenos felt, God.

We have shown that the substance and object of religion is altogether human; we have shown that divine wisdom is human wisdom; that the secret of theology is anthropology; that the absolute mind is the so-called finite subjective mind.

we possess intense, deep-seated wishes that form the basis for our concept of and belief in God. God does not create us in His image; we create God in our parents' image—or, more accurately, into the childhood image of our father. God exists only in our minds.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Rest, let your body relax and grow. Work up gradually and don't blow it. Sometimes you can do so much your mind gets sick of it. Remember what I said earlier: Keep your mind hungry. People have a tendency to overdo things at first and then sluff off.

You have to build the ultimate physical machine, but also the ultimate mind

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe it 100%

I have found you can still get the pump to come if you focus and concentrate hard enough.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

Sports are so physical that it's easy to overlook the mind's power, but I've seen it demonstrated again and again.