Quotes About Mind

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.

For nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose —a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul of both hope and fear

So if someone is thinking about me, then that's the place I go ?

If I can just get him in Kotoamatsukami, I can make Lord Fugaku tell everyone the coup is off. And I can make Fugaku himself believe from the bottom of his heart that it was his own idea.

The truth of the matter is that the stronger or more capable the body is, the weaker or lazier the mind can afford to be.

Confidence is not some nonphysical quality snatched from the spiritual dimension and installed in the mind. It is the feeling that arises when the body's knowledge of itself is in harmony with a person's dreams.

And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.

Remember, you're a stranger to them and you have no idea what path their mind was on before you said your brilliant opener. Here's

It is genes that allow the human mind to learn, to remember, to imitate, to imprint, to absorb culture, and to express instincts. Genes are not puppet masters or blueprints. Nor are they just the carriers of heredity. They are active during life;

all gods and all superstitions emerge from within human minds, and go through characteristic but unplanned transformations as history unfolds. Thus even the most top–down feature of human culture is actually a bottom–up, emergent phenomenon. O'Grady

The mind drives the body, which drives the genome.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

The human brain is a wonderful thought-producing machine. It turns out millions of thoughts every day. Most of the time, this makes our lives much easier. But unfortunately, we can't fully control what our brain thinks about.

It's almost as if the harder you try to forget something, the harder your brain tries to remember it. This is why forcing yourself to forget about something that happened to you is impossible. It's also why you can't simply force yourself to get rid of emotions that you don't want.

Rather, it's your thoughts about these events, the ways you interpret them, and your physical reactions to these thoughts that produce an anxious emotional state.

giant hard drive in my head, so I'm forced to obsess over it all like

There's that first few seconds, right when you wake up in the morning, when your head is absolutely clear. It's like a computer booting up—its screen perfectly clean and white—before the train wreck of your desktop clogs everything up with its disorganized jumble of crap.

and luckily I have enough in my head to balance what is wanting in my back.

The boundary between being an exile and being mad seemed to be a fine one... losing one's rightful place in the world could mean losing one's mind.

Human fears are very often irrational constructs of the mind.

to you, unknown corporeal interlocutor who I hope is just kind of out there somehow knowing my thoughts and undertaking your own heroic struggle against the exigencies of having a body made of a trillion cells each with a hungry mouth [...]

I have also come to understand that although some people are naturally happier than others, their happiness is still vulnerable and incomplete, and that achieving durable happiness as a way of being is a skill. It requires sustained effort in training the mind and developing a set of human qualities, such as inner peace, mindfulness, and altruistic love.