Mind Quotes

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate fou...

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met ...

That would be showing him a part of her soul, a part of her mind, that she's never risked showing an...

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away but he who is not in our heart i...

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; ther...

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing hi...

unaccountably we are aloneforever aloneand it was meant to bethat way,it was never meantto be any ot...

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a ...

Minds like bodies will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfor...

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, h...

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and en...

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you ar...

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ...

We can burst the bonds which chain us,Which cold human hands have wrought,And where none shall dare ...

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy....

I don't mind not being cool.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change thei...

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinkin...

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the ...

I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the ide...

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the...

In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes.To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for the...

Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project ...

To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywrit...

The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling ...

I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believin...

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's m...

Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.

Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I ...

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A moralit...

To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the f...

When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to g...

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear does...

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

It's a thought," I said with a grin."That's exactly what it is, Dan - a thought - no more real than ...

Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave d...

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% c...

The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind wo...

How many great men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselve...

I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and ...

She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and e...

Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brai...

.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Explanation is where the mind rests.

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving ...

The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, h...

there're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of...

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

There is no question in my mind that a 'Brexit' would deal a significant blow to the E.U.'s strength...

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will sti...

Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mi...

Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives onl...

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all ...

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much ...

We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain an...

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic...

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experien...

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

How language is webbed in the senses. Out of sand-blazed brilliance into quirky minds such as his, i...

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting press...

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we ...

The people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind.

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

The night seemed long. Wilbur's stomach was empty and his mind was full. And when your stomach is em...

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

We move between two darknesses.

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and esp...

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destruc...

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into ...

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every...

People don't realize that now is all there ever is there is no past or future except as memory or an...

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed ...

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human min...

Mind isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possi...

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passion...

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In t...

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call ...

Keep the body - or keep the mind, and it will keep the body! - in a constructive manner. That is, th...

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.