Quotes About Mind

Camminando, ci si ricorda soltanto dei propri sogni.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Oui, la beauté ne saurait jamais nous faire oublier notre condition tragique. Il y a une beauté proprement humaine, ce feu d'esprit qui brûle, s'il brûle, au-delà du tragique.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.

Now nature herself teaches us what we should do. When we see in every day life things that are petty, ordinary, and banal, we generally fail to remember them, because the mind is not being stirred by anything novel or marvellous. But if we see or hear something exceptionally base, dishonourable, unusual, great, unbelievable, or ridiculous, that we are likely to remember for a long time.

the soul never thinks without a mental picture',13 'the thinking faculty thinks of its forms in mental pictures',14 'no one could ever learn or understand anything, if he had not the faculty of perception; even when he thinks speculatively, he must have some mental picture with which to think.'15 For

Wrath makes the heart pound, impels us against our nearest relations, drives the tongue to curses, creates havoc with the mind, generates hatred of our dearest, and dissolves the covenant of friendship.

She lay there with her eyes closed, as if sleep were a shy creature that might venture out if she played dead. But every time it seemed to be drawing closer, some loud thought would crash and blunder through the undergrowth, putting it to flight.

She could feel her mind pulling loose like knitting, the neat stitches of her artificial days unravelling to become one mangled thread.

Neverfell was tired, so very tired. Waiting in her room to learn of her fate, her mind kept dropping away into sleep for numb instants no longer than a blink. Next moment her thoughts would jar her awake again, thrashing and crashing and clattering like a monstrous waterwheel, turning and turning without end or purpose. She jerked and stared and barely knew where she was, dream pieces floating like iceberg shards across her half-waking mind.

What a mind that woman must have!" he said with admiration. It was the hushed tone of a jeweller studying the largest and finest diamond he will ever see.

He could gaze upon a particular deep shade of green and pick out every nuance of the color. Zeluppian Fern Green, his mind would inform him. Gray, said his soul. Just a shade of gray with a greenish name. His well-trained tongue could pick out every flavor of a sweetmeat. Honey from bees fed only cowslip nectar, his mind would tell him, with cherries marinated for twenty-one years in peach-and-saffron brandy. Ash, said his soul. Ash and dust. Even

The female mind is a different thing altogether," he added quickly, "and quite delightful in its own right! But too much intellect would spoil and flatten it, like a rock in a soufflé.

You cannot risk giving your thoughts free rein. They will never choose the right path until you bridle them and control them by your own disciplined will. You are master of your own house. You do not have to invite into your mind the foul birds of evil thoughts and allow them to nest there and bring forth their young.

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

The most effective kind of propaganda is defined as the kind where the subject moves in the direction you desire for reasons which he believes to be his own.

These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Si dominas tu mente, ya has ganado más de media batalla.

The good painter should paint two main things, and these are man and the intention of his mind [concetti della mente sua]; while the first is easy, the second is difficult, because it has to be captured through the gestures and the movements of the limbs, and these should be learned from mutes, who better actualize them than any other sort of man.

There's a battle going on in your mind between positive and negative and the one that will win is the one you feed the most.

Reading God's Word and meditating on its truth will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart, and will be demonstrated in your life. Let nothing take the place of this daily privilege.

Repent means to renounce sin . . .and by God's grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.

Do you want your faith to grow? Then let the Bible begin to saturate your mind and soul.