Quotes About Mind

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of Tightness-it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet, is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly curved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on ... the arrangement of textures and colors in a butterfly's wing?

Madness is part of all of us, all the time, and it comes and goes, waxes and wanes.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.

Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

The simplest things give me ideas.

If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Speech is the index of the mind.

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand. ... Adventure is a state of mind-and spirit. It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.