Mind Quotes - Page 408

This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

My mind is clouded with a doubt.

Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.

A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.

And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.

The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.

No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].

There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mean people don't like what I am saying

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.