Mind Quotes - Page 238

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.

The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

Real things don't frighten me just the ones in my mind do.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

When we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.

I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.