Quotes About Mind

inner" healing and changing of belief systems must take place before the disease is eradicated.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.' Shakespeare.

I don't think I'm nuts, though, and I don't think you do, either, but you have to make up your own mind. Nothing works if you don't start there.

Running wasn't pointless, of course. Sometimes you did it to try to outrun your thoughts, sometimes you did it to chase them and bring them down. Sometimes you did it so that you didn't think at all.

The mind is a fathomless mystery.

the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days.

Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was – wasn't everything in her head real too? What if there was no demonstrable reality? What if there was nothing beyond the mind?

Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was - wasn't everything in her head real too? What if there was no demonstrable reality? What if there was nothing beyond the mind?

Right up until the end, Victor's mind had been as methodical as an efficient library, whereas Amelia felt that hers was more like the cupboard under the stair where ancient hockey sticks were shoved in beside broken Hoovers and boxes of old Christmas decorations, and the one thing you knew was in there—a five-amp fuse, a tin of tan shoe polish, a Phillips screwdriver—would almost certainly be the one thing you couldn't lay your hands on.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear. [Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidate coeperunt.]

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.