Mind Quotes - Page 421

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.

My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

Isn't it curious that narrow-minded people are often the most thickheaded?

And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

You condition a vulnerable boy at puberty to become aroused by brutality. It's the violence, not the nudity. Frankly, I wouldn't mind if every teenage boy had a subscription to Playboy. They'd be looking at attractive naked female bodies while they masturbated, not eviscerated female bodies.

I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

A big, sweeping, and rapturous Hollywood love story that could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year! A film in which love feels almost as if it were being invented. It is also a rare crowd-pleaser with the potential to change hearts and minds.

Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

A clean mind always delivers power.

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.

You have the right to speak your mind.

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch.