Quotes About Mind

The human mind is capable of greatness, but we have been trained to process information with efficiency, which can sometimes mean superficially. We grab on to salient identifiers, often at the expense of devoting attention to more nuanced details. - Hank Beckman, Pg. 266

En réalité, les motifs qu'on a d'être heureux ou malheureux sont sans poids; tout dépend de notre corps.

La profonde tristesse résulte toujours d'un état maladif du corps.

Love is necessary to satisfy the mind, ethics to satisfy the conscience, and spiritual seeking for peace of soul. Without food and clothes, the body becomes thin and weak. Without eroticism, the mind becomes restless and unsatisfied. Without virtue (ethics), the conscience goes astray. Without spirituality, the soul is degraded.

Starting with a gray cloud of brain cells that was subject to storms and flash floods, I had to learn to make my own internal weather.

In order to fight a war (probably the most extreme form of poor communication), unfamiliarity is the preferred state of mind.

Raquel Welch, whom I've met but never kissed, once called the brain an erogenous zone.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities.

So it's not that every second of my childhood was filled with doom. But every second was filled with the possibility that in an instant my father's mood would plunge into irrationality, rage, and ultimately violence. This very feeling, this possibility, is what darkens the part of my mind where my childhood stories live.

knowing how the mind works isn't going to change how your mind works. Even

How I changed my mind about women in leadership came through the gradual piling up of anomalies against a powerful but unsustainable paradigm.

If your mind is too open people can throw all kinds of rubbish into it.

The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear; and we achieve little by lingering.

There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did they wouldn't be there. But with close to two hundred thousand words my probabilistic mind tells me some are wrong.

When we talk today about receptiveness to stories, we tend to contrast that attitude to one governed by reason - we talk about freeing ourselves from the shackles of the rational mind and that sort of thing - but no belief was more central to Lewis's mind than the belief that it is eminently, fully rational to be responsive to the enchanting power of stories.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind seizes before the intelligence.

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

A PERSON WHO has gained peace of mind has gained everything. To obtain peace of mind, you need to be at peace with the people in your environment. You need to be at peace with yourself, with your emotions and desires. Furthermore, you need to be at peace with your Creator. —RABBI SHLOMO WOLBE (1914–2005)

The only principle I'm prepared to absolutely commit to, with absolute certainty, is that I can change my mind.

Humans are exempt from biology.

Evolution stops at the neck.

I wonder if I'm the only one in the running business with this system of forgetting that I'm running because I'm too busy thinking.