Quotes About Mind

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

I think 'Inception' was a sick idea, but they didn't do it correctly.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

The risk a lot of times, in my mind - and I may be incorrect - the risk of challenging people directly with their beliefs is that society is such that there's too many of us, so a direct challenge automatically engages people's defenses.

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

I have told the PCB that I want total independence to work with a free mind and pick the best players, and they have assured me it will be done.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.

Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.

Make a point never so clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.

The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or that person, but whether they have an absolute existence, distinct from being perceived by God, and exterior to all minds.

Doth the reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Can the mind of a philosopher rise to a more just and magnificent, and at the same time a more amiable idea of the Deity than is here set forth in the strongest images and most emphatical language? And yet this is the language of shepherds and fishermen.

There is a restless endeavour in the mind of man after Happiness. This appetite is wrought into the original frame of our nature, and exerts itself in all parts of the creation that are endued with any degree of thought or sense. But, as the human mind is dignified by a more comprehensive faculty than can be found in the inferior animals, it is natural for men not only to have an eye each to his own happiness, but also to endeavour to promote that of others.

Tomaz believed that 80% alpinism was mental and spiritual and that his third eye vision & openness of his mind to the language of the walls were critical

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.