Mind Quotes - Page 274

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

He blew his mind out in a caaaar.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.

He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.

Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul

My mind to me an empire is.

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?

Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne.

It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.