Quotes About Mind

If you are in a bad state of mind then you would end up snapping at people, getting irritated. It's happening with many. The best way to avoid that is by doing things that take away the stress.

There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.

To be honest, I don't mind Jason Gardiner, I've always found him amusing.

Reading the script for 'Jennifer's Body,' I just thought that here was a script that really exposes the horror between girls and friendships. I always sort of approached the film with that in mind first, and then thought about the crazy ways that that horror would express itself.

I can't say why some memories float and other sink.

She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.

It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

The eye of the human understanding is not a naked organ of perception (lumen siccum), but an eye imbued with moisture by Will and Passion. Man always believes what he determines to believe.

God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the image of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. So the care of posterity is most in them that they have no posterity.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt.