Mind Quotes

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

I always think before I speak. I'm not the sort who will just say anything that comes to my mind. I'm a very emotional and sensitive person. But I'm also very strong and know my mind well.

Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

Move your joints every day. You have to find your own tricks. Bury your mind deep in your heart, and watch the body move by itself.

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.

Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

The mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form.

So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.

Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?

Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control.

O Lord...Let my knowing of you not just be in my mind, but fully alive inside my heart...remove ‘me’...let there be only you

Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world.

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations.

Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free.

Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

You have everything you need. A miraculous body, a phenomenal brain, and a vast powerful subconscious mind. Now it's just a matter of focusing them in the right direction

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.

Crime is a product of a distorted mind.

Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.

Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in mind.

How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.