Mind Quotes - Page 333

Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Ideas exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws.

Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together.

If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either one or the other, and you will inevitably become fantastic, because each style will fatigue your mind.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.'

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.

Boxers are going away and not getting decisions and are losing, so it's not looking good for us, is it, as a nation? Thanks for pointing that out. It's put even more pressure on me now. I don't mind that at all. I love pressure.

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.

If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do.

Mind is everything. There's nothing that it's not.

There's no one who can teach you except yourself. Each of us needs to look at what our belief system really consists of. Look at the concepts that come across your mind and just notice what you believe.

The mind is so tricky. It will say, "No one cares. Is it true? Well, someone does. Let's see: So-and-so doesn't care. Well, maybe they do. Well, there is someone who doesn't care." It just shifts and shifts and shifts, so it can keep all of its concepts intact.

Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.