Quotes About Mind

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered mind.

In the past, my brain babbling at such length had meant there was something it either didn't want to think about--which things numbered in the dozens right now--or it was working out some extreme cleverness that would at any moment leap out and surprise me. Much to my dismay, nothing leapt out.

It has driven men to extremes, to the impious arrogance of believing they alone can comprehend the vast mysteries of Scripture, let alone the mind of God. Such people are incapable of understanding even their own minds, for they confuse their own needs, for certainty or power, with God's voice speaking to them.

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.

His heart definitely had a longer memory than his mind.

to occupy her mind apart from Patrik and his family. His sister, Lotta, lived in Gothenburg

Psychoanalysis [...] overestimates the linguistic character of the unconscious. Dreaming is a pagan cinema.

Incarnation, the limitation of mind by matter, is an outrage to the imagination.

Il ciriveddro è 'na gran camurria di machina che non sulo non s'arresta mai, ma t'obbliga a pinsari a quello che voli lui

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

Worry in the dark can make it even darker.

He lives in his memories

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field.

My father's a large man, very strong, but he says fighting is for people who can't win with their brains. He also says there are times when you've got no choice but to defend yourself from common morons.

Wouldn't it be a treat, Chaz thought, to have just one goddamn day when nobody fucked with my head?

the proposition that all mankind's creations should be appraised not just for their beauty or ingenuity, but for what they revealed about the mystery of the human mind.

Your body is run by a competent staff that's been on the job since before the company acquired consciousness. Too bad you can't personally meet your team.

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and the voice of the author begins to speak inside your head. (Hello!)

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak?

It's no surprise that appeals to a state of mind called faith can relieve symptoms caused, at least in part, by another, perhaps not very different state of mind.