Mind Quotes
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!
I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.
The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
Do you want to know what you think about most of the time? Take a look at the results you're getting. That will tell you exactly what's going on inside.
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.
An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.
You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.
People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.
To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.
Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.
Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.
To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind
When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad
We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.
We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man.
this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.
Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.
The True Self is infinite. It knows no boundaries. Pure essence. Pure light. Engulfing the mind, the soul, the body, the invisible real, with its radiance.