Quotes About Mind

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

Indeed, it is very far from accurate to say that we see with our eyes. The eye is blind but for the idea behind the eye.

the time will come, and come soon, in which we shall have a knowledge of God and mind that is not less certain than that of figures and numbers, and in which the invention of machines will be no more difficult than the construction of problems in geometry.

Each question was precisely the best one based on the information he had uncovered so far. His logic was faultless—he never asked a question that was irrelevant or erroneous. His questions came in rapid-fire order, revealing a mind that was lightning-fast and error-free.

Instead of learning from one mind at a time, the search engine learns from the collective human mind, all at once. Every time an individual searches for something, and finds an answer, this leaves a faint, lingering trace as to where (and what) some fragment of meaning is. The fragments accumulate and, at a certain point, as Turing put it in 1948, "the machine would have 'grown up.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force

Principles early sown in the mind, are the seeds which produce fruit and harvest in the ripe state of manhood.

Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

Berkeley's belief was that such a view, despite its assertion of God and human minds or souls, is an implicit encouragement to atheism.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his…. It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Free your mind and your ass will followThe kingdom of heaven is within

Free your mind and your ass will follow.

If it wasn't for flash backs, I wouldn't remember anything at all.

His heart runs away with his head.