Quotes About Mind

How strange it was! He wanted to remember these things very badly; he knew he did, but he could never retain them; in spite of himself they no sooner fell upon his mind than they fell off it again, he had such a dreadful memory; whereas, if anyone played him a piece of music and told him where it came from, he never forgot that, though he made no effort to retain it, and was not even conscious of trying to remember it at all. His mind must be badly formed and he was no good.

Not only is nothing good or ill but thinking makes it so, but nothing is at all, except in so far as thinking has made it so.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Boswell: That, sir, was great fortitude of mind.Johnson: No, sir; stark insensibility.

No, Sir, it is a good thing; there is a community of mind in it. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.

With these [Love, Patience, Faith] celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove.

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

If you detect something mindless about American education, it's because the mind has been taken out of it. Only visible behavior counts.

But the strange thing, the thing that you can never explain to anyone, except another nut, or, if you're lucky, a doctor who has an unusual amount of sense-stranger than the hallucinations, or the voices, or the anxiety-is the way you begin to experience the edges of the mind itself... in a way other people just can't.

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind — vividly, forcefully — that good writing, which stops with clarity and logic, doesn't.

Oh, the bright young people who come here, with their bright, lively imaginations. They do nothing all day long but think of ways to kill. It's a terribly placid society, really. But, why shouldn't it be? All its aggressions are vented from nine to five. Still, I think it does something to our minds. Imagination should be used for something other than pondering murder, don't you think?

I do not say, however, that every delusion or wandering of the mind should be called madness. Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly There

Uma consciência multiplexa sempre faz perguntas quando precisa.

The over-determined human mind would rather have everything relevant, even if the relevance is simple-minded.