Quotes About Mind

Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

The only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Valour is nobleness of the mind.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

All excess is ill, but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Fear is created not by the world around us, but in the mind, by what we think is going to happen.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Hate is not a good counselor.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

From his cradle to the grave, a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.