Quotes About Mind

Anxiety is that range of distress which attends willing what cannot be willed.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm.

To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged, it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride, but when we attempt to steer the course, the momentum dies.

It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil-far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word "human" disappears from the race.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.

Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind, what is indicated by an empty desk?

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

The mind of the most logical thinker goes so easily from one point to another that it is not hard to mistake motion for progress.

Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.

What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about.

If there is anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in the ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.