Quotes About Mind

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

Man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.

The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists. He

what you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists. He

That's all a belief was. A thought. But look at how much power it held!

The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exist.

The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

El temor que se acumula en la mente es mucho peor que la situación que existe en realidad.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

Disdain is a natural condition of the mind in exile;

How much more attention people pay to their fears than to their memories!

Every science comes with its own pseudo-science, a bizarre distortion that comes from a certain kind of mind.

I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.

Was it possible for thought to exist without consciousness?

It's up to you. But remember that she is a mirror that reflects a part of your mind. If she is beautiful, it's because your memories are. You provide the formula. You can only finish where you started, don't forget that

For truly, what computer has not asked whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous instructions?

Every science comes with its own pseudo-science, a bizarre distortion that comes from a certain kind of mind: astronomy has its caricaturist in astrology, chemistry used to have alchemy. So

Ksi??k? mo?na czytelnikowi g?ow?, owszem przemeblowa? o tyle, o ile jakie? meble ju? w niej przed lektur? sta?y.

The human mind is only capable of absorbing a few things at a time. We see what is taking place in front of us int he here and now, and cannot envisage simultaneously a succession of processes, no matter how integrated and complementary. Our faculties of perception are consequently limited even as regards fairly simple phenomena.

Because there may be thoughts, intentions and cruel hopes in my mind of which I know nothing, because I am a murderer unawares.

Someone fond of paradoxes and sufficiently stubborn could go on doubting that the ocean was a living being. But it was impossible to deny the existence of its mind, whatever could be understood by the term. It had become quite clear that it was only too aware of our presence above it…

Not all the items are equally precious to me; some awaken cheerful memories, others bring to mind events full of dread and menace, but all—regardless—are evidence, full corroboration of the authenticity of my adventures.

Grof, S. 2006. The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death. Ben Lomond, CA: MAPS Publications.