Mind Quotes - Page 269

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

The walls of people hardly affected me. You closed your mind to such things.

Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.

Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

A lot times you have your frame very much in mind and you're waiting for things to fall in place.

I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.

It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear.

Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you.

If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.