Mind Quotes - Page 277

To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.

The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be linear when all these snatches of other presents exist at once in your mind? A very elusive and tricky concept, time.

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.

The world is in great need of more music education. When students play music, it allows a part of their artistic mind to express itself, which is very important in helping to balance a child intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally.

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

Your body gets old but your mind can always accept that.

The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it.

No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.

I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness