Mind Quotes - Page 267

To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything.

There's a certain amount of mind control that happens. Everybody is living in a world where they're being controlled. They're being told what to think, what to do, and what to eat.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

In a nutshell: if freedom visualised by the Enlightenment and demanded/promised by Marx was made to the measure of the ideal producer; the market-promoted freedom is designed with the ideal consumer in mind; neither of the two is "more genuine" than the other.

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain.

I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance.

The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.