Mind Quotes - Page 256

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There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

Happiness is a state a mind, not a dress size.

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl. And chicken wings.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.

The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones.

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

When we are in the process of creating something, we must have flexibility of mind to move with what needs to be done. What allows this to happen is precisely the fact that we're not attached to how things should be done.

Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.

Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.

The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.

Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control.

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.