Quotes About Mind

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

Forgetting," I said, "is probably as much a part of life as remembering. We're all amnesiacs.

Worries about the power of a doctor's suggestions to influence and shape his patient's mind, whether they are made under hypnosis or not, are still with us.

Very simply, for the mind, absence can be a catalyst for presence.

Aggressive questions are usually pedagogic - that is, the answer has already been written in the mind of the questioner, who then waits with a reply. It's pretend listening.

Being alive is inexplicable, I thought. Consciousness itself is inexplicable. There is nothing ordinary in the world.

Vi läser av varandra genom ögonen, och anatomiskt är ögonen en förlängning av hjärnan. När vi fångar någons blick ser vi in i en tankevärld. En människa utan ögon känns oroande av det enkla skälet att ögonen är dörrarna till jaget. (49)

The truth is that what fascinates me is not so much being in a place as not being there: how places live in the mind once you have left them, how they are imagined before you arrive, or how they are seemingly called out of nothing to illustrate a thought or story like my tree down yonder. These mental spaces map our Innes lives more fully than any "real" map, delineating the borders of here and there that also shape what we see in the present.

We need to think of the self as a continuum, a steady story over time. The mind is always searching for similarities, associations, repetitions, because they create meaning.

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

Never underestimate the power of the mind, the importance of love and faith, and never stop dreaming.

There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.

I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.

In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.

No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.

Love is reality, fear is an illusory concept created in your mind.

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

The thoughts that go through your mind when you find out you have so little time is everything that you need to say to everyone that you love.

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.