Quotes About Mind

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

My mind is my Achilles's Heel." - The Tick

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Oh come in from the confines of your own mind my dear Because worry is all you'll find there it's clear And tomorrow will always come And tomorrow may well bring the sun

The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

It was like how, when he read a poem to himself, the rhymes were neither sound nor silence. Unheard melodies in the mind's ear. The muted music of consciousness.

It's like there is a video game inside his head except what happens there will happen here.

The relationship between cricket (that most English of sports) and spying (at which the British have always excelled) is deep-rooted and unique. Something about the game attracts the sort of mind also drawn to the secret worlds of intelligence and counter-intelligence – a complex test of brain and brawn, a game of honour interwoven with trickery, played with ruthless good manners and dependent on minute gradations of physics and psychology, with tea breaks.

When men cough or talk into their own hands, they are praying to their own bones, hoping to change their minds about something.

My greatest strength is an unfocused mind. This is because while you are all thinking of one idea, I'm thinking of five different ideas. My greatest weakness however is an unfocused mind. This is because while I'm supposed to be thinking about one thing, I'm actually thinking of five other things.

Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.

Wars are not fought on battlegrounds but in a space smaller than the head of a needle.

Is there anything more real than what we have created in our minds?

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

We think of pieces of music from a distance as blocks of time, but can we hold more than a second or two in our minds? And are we—with all music, to some extent—waiting around for some pinpointed extraordinariness to happen? Not

I knew that psychological as well as economic factors motivate human behavior.

What changed Dimon's mind about acquiring Bear?

Lasting happiness can only be achieved through cultivation of soul and mind. And cultivating our souls and minds requires us to live with moral purpose.

Faith is not the opposite of knowledge... Indeed, the mind is a gift from God, just as faith is.

Close your eyes and try to sleep now Close your eyes and try to dream Clear your mind and do your best to try and wash the palette clean

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.