Mind Quotes - Page 378

Then it crosses my mind, "But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!"

Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of what is religion and not merely accept the established religions, churches, and rituals.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying to talk to itself, to convince itself of something; it is always moving, noisy.

You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual.

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them.

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.

Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is put together: not all natural kinds (not all the classes of things and events about which there are important, counterfactual supporting generalizations to make) are, or correspond to, physical natural kinds.

We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.

Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind.

Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go.

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

Not only is it mind-blowing that God would consider me - us - worthy of his love, but it's flat-out incomprehensible that God would give us his wisdom, compassion, guidance, and comfort by giving us his Word. It's totally humbling and such an honor. Thank you Lord!

That was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me ‘Baby,’ and it didn't occur to me to mind.