Quotes About Mind

L'ignorance est l'état naturel de l'esprit pour un chercheur scientifique. Montrez-moi quelqu'un qui croit n'être en rien ignorant, et je vous montrerai quelqu'un qui n'a jamais cherché, ni affronté la frontière entre ce qui est connu et ce qui est encore inconnu dans l'univers.

These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.

Personal truths have the power to command your mind, body, and soul, but are not evidence-based. Personal truths are what you're sure is true, even if you can't—especially if you can't—prove it. Some of these ideas derive from what you want to be true. Others take shape from charismatic leaders or sacred doctrines, either ancient or contemporary. For some, especially in monotheistic traditions, God and Truth are synonymous. The Christian Bible says so:2

He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if it comes from someone else. The unconscious thinks in terms of content and structure. If you introduce a pattern with the words, 'My friend was telling me,' the critical part of her mind shuts off.

I used to think that intelligence came from books and knowledge and rational thought. But that's not intelligence: It's just information and interpretation. Real intelligence is when your mind and your heart connect. That's when you see the truth so clearly and unmistakably that you don't have to think about it. In fact, all thinking will do is lead you away from the truth and soon you'll be back in your head, groping with a penlight in the dark again.

There is no such thing as fear," Rasputin replied. "Emotions are just energy and motion that you trap inside your body because of a thought." Mini-Clark

They'd leave open loops (or unfinished metaphors and stories) in my mind that they'd close a week later. They'd play music designed to elicit specific psychological reactions. They'd put me into trances so deep that hours went by in the blink of an eye.

La inteligencia verdadera se da cuando la mente y el corazón se conectan. Entonces es cuando ves la verdad de una forma tan nítida e inequívoca que no tienes ni que pensar en ella.

All I have is my mind, and nobody can see that.

do all you can to stop the ungodly chatter.

It's up to you to choose whether you're going to use your body, which includes your brain, for sin or for the sake of righteousness.

The problem is not primarily external and resolved by learning to behave better. The problem is internal

But that's all hindsight. That evening, my mind was cloudy, and my good judgment was influenced by my need to prove something. It goes to show you, you shouldn't stay out too late during the week.

Cada um de nós, individualmente, pode não ter o sexo na cabeça; mas o povo o tem.

Nothing comes from without; all things come from within - from the subconscious

Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–Neville Goddard

Because of your belief in external things you think power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer conditions.

There are actually three kinds of mind: one kind grasps things unaided, the second sees what another has grasped, the third grasps nothing and sees nothing. The first kind is extremely valuable, the second valuable, the third useless.

There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.

A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

Allie noticed it all, every sound, every thought. Her senses had come alive, invigorating her, and she felt her mind drifting through the last few weeks.

Winston Churchill once described worry as a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind that, if encouraged, cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

The steady rhythm of her footfalls set her mind adrift

This will sound funny coming out of my mouth, but I like to play characters that have an intelligence. It doesn't matter if it's a physical intelligence or emotional intelligence.