Quotes About Mind

Happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

The mind is a friend or it is a foe.

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

You forget the things you want to remember and remember the things you want to forget.

Occasionally a moderately intelligent thought misses a turn and accidentally enters my mind

The mind is a miser," he said. "Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough.

Once he gets inside your head, you're dead.

There's a difference between what you'll do in your mind and what you'll actually do for real.

Well, of course it was Billy screwing with his mind. That's what Billy did. Dear Old Dad had a PhD in mind screwing. The question was, was it just Billy screwing with his mind?

Because challenge is the key to maintaining vitality of mind and body!

The heart is a vital organ, but it is a faulty guide to conduct. It is the mind makes judgements and comparisons, furnishes evidence on which ideas of truth can be founded.

When soul to soul can message send-- Dispatched from mind to mind-- All nations will be swayed by thought, And thought will rule mankind.

There is no great success without concentration: and no concentration in minds that have not been disciplined to long-continued, self-reliant thought.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Reason cannot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

T]hese instances are enough to show, that the body can by the sole laws of its nature do many things which the mind wonders at.