Quotes About Mind

I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.

Belief is thought at rest.

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

I began getting these terrible headaches and I thought 'Oh great, death.' But it was just tension and tiredness.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.