Quotes About Mind

Stressed people do not burn body fat as fuel as efficiently as do those who are not stressed.

Do you know why I love mathematics? Because it blew your mind for free when you couldn't get drugs? Eccles snorted in surprise. Well, yes, but there's another reason.

A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there... is... no... key.

The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information--these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up a defense, and the evidence was restructured, and that was what I tried to do on that morning--to restructure the evidence so it made sense--and that is what I failed at.

Maybe it was just another episode in the reality show that is still unfolding. Or maybe when you're roiling in childish rage, the first thing you lose is judgment, and then comes common sense. And finally you lose your mind and along with that, your freedom.

Or maybe when you're roiling in childish rage, the first thing you lose is judgment, and then comes common sense. And finally you lose your mind and along with that, your freedom.

It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud

Through study we welcome the light of God into our minds.

Not only is mind our tether to reality, perhaps it is our tether to eternity.

We could be dreaming all the time, but we do not perceive those dreams while we are awake because consciousness (like the sun obscuring stars during the day) is much too brilliant to allow the unconscious content so much definition.

Every hammer has the innate capacity to strike a nail. Every human mind has the innate capacity for greatness. But not every hammer is properly used, nor is every human mind.

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. —Caedmon Erb, Politics and Reality

Consciousness and logic are not reliable standards. —COGITORS, Fundamental Postulate

The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers, her mother had once told her. But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.

I thought that Navigators just saw the way, a safe way. Holtzman generators actually move the spacecraft." He decided to add a quote he remembered from the Bible. "'The highest master in the material world is the human mind, and the beasts of the field and the machines of the city must be forever subordinate.

I must not fear,' Ã¢â'¬Â she intoned, her eyes closed. " Ã¢â'¬ËœFear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.' Ã¢â'¬Â It

Each sentient life requires a place of extreme serenity, where the mind may roam afterward in memory and to which the body longs to return.

The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers," her mother had once told her. "But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.

Once the wonders of space are opened up to a Guild Navigator's mind, what other decorations are necessary? How can any ornamentation rival the wonders a Navigator sees on a single journey through foldspace? The universe, brother! The whole universe." C'tair nodded, conceding the point. "All right

It requires a desperate and lonely sort of courage to challenge the accepted wisdom upon which social peace of mind rests.

Every person can be manipulated—and all of us are, in one manner or another. —wisdom of the Cogitors

Each human being is a time machine. —Zensunni Fire Poetry

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. Chief commandment resulting from the Butlerian Jihad, found in the Orange Catholic Bible

The ego is only a bit of consciousness swimming upon the ocean of dark things. We are an enigma unto ourselves. —The Mentat Handbook