Quotes About Mind

Whenever any subject so forcibly affects the mind, time is well spent in thinking of it.

The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her specters within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one.

Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind.

Lee wrote, "[and] lament with you that fatal indecision of mind which in war is a much greater disqualification than stupidity or even want of personal courage. . . . Eternal defeat and miscarriage must attend the man of the best parts if cursed with indecision." Washington was as aware as

Mysticism is the function of a mind looking for alternatives to reality.

Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.' Let it wrap its antennae round that one, Janer thought. But the mind was quick with a reply. 'You cannot stop, then?' said the mind. 'No,' said Janer. 'Except to die.

If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that crucial reality check. But what happens on the rare occasions when they conspire together?

The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind . . . so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar?

I am in turmoil. The world is so vast and the cosmos more so, yet it is not the things outside of me that leave me so uneasy; it is the things within me.

But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.

He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

There are no wrong thoughts, only thoughts that need to be worked through and overcome.

If pennies become worthless, does that devalue our thoughts to less than nothing?

and that dizzying gap between what she should feel and what she did feel was tearing her apart.

There's this thing in my head that I have to purge onto the page before it changes the shape of my brain.

I should already know that my thoughts are never alone.

But what if your mind becomes a pathological liar?

You still have your own mind,' she pointed out. 'That's got to be worth something.

A game of chess, then, where all the pieces are invisible!" "If you like," said Greyson.

She closed her eyes again, and tried to reboot. Human brains, she knew, could be like computers, especially in the time that hung between sleep and wakefulness. Sometimes you said strange things, did even stranger things, and once in a while you couldn't figure out exactly how you got where you got.

His one-eight feels a whole lot bigger when I spend time hanging around in his grey matter.

Why am I seeing a beach ball?

What person in their right mind would want to feel that kind of pain?" "Rightmindedness is overrated," Goddard said. "I'd rather have a mind that's clear than one that's 'right.'

These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking.... Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.