Quotes About Mind

You have more friends within than without… Yet you also have more enemies within than without. As a matter of fact, all your friends and enemies are within! And also those who are neither friends nor enemies. They are all within. Everyone and everything is within. So who's out there? Out there, there is just yourself.

You have a shrewd but prosaic mind, and you cannot conceive of an entity that does not depend for its existence on force and matter. But did it ever occur to you, my friend, that force and matter are merely the barriers to perception imposed by time and space?

we knew the Witch Doctor was busy in the village. I've got the spot marked to a certainty in my mind, and all of you notice that there's the finest cedar growing directly above him on the top of the wall,

Fear is the mind-killer…. I will face my fear.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

When you switch the lens and heal your mind of negativity, it actually helps heal your body of exhaustion, aches, and pains.

The heart is the first feature of working minds.

Freedom is from within.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it's a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective. "The Nature of Art" December 19, 1954

It's lovely to know that the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.

You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas, it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

I'd prefer to have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

McTeague's mind was as his body, heavy, slow to act, sluggish. Yet there was nothing vicious about the man.

when I think of all the things I've been thinking of I feel insane

If this was sanity, being crazy made a lot more sense.

Dado que un hogar desordenado conduce a una mente desordenada, y una mente desordenada conduce al estrés, a la ansiedad y a la depresión, no es sorprendente que el simple hecho de adoptar un enfoque minimalista de la vida pueda traerle una mayor felicidad.

Oh! Zu viele Negationen! Oh! Oh! Zu kompliziert! Verzeiht, dass ich dem Fisch in eurem Schädel solch diffiziles Zeug zumute!

Ihr seid ein gefühlsduseliger Wicht! Ich unterstelle euch ja keine verräterischen Absichten, wohl aber ein vom Sentiment durchweichtes Hirn.

On the one hand our body is our temple, but on the other we despise it for being mere machinery. We've become accustomed to valuing mind over body. We feel nothing but contempt for the factors relating to our physical survival.

religion is a neurological disorder for which faith is the only cure.

God's only in your head!" my answer is, "Yeah, whatever. What isn't?