Mind Quotes - Page 302

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded.

I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.

I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.

Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.

Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society.

As long as the mind is unsubdued, there is always outside harm. Once the mind is subdued, once there is no anger in the mental continuum, there is no outside enemy. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.

My mind is my own church.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

Take more time, cover less ground.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.