Mind Quotes - Page 291

Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

A ready smile concealed a firm mind.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worthwhile. That and the anticipation. It's addictive, because you never know when it will happen, but when it does, nothing in the world is as important.

Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.

The march of the human mind is slow.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

In the network's mind there are no limits.