Mind Quotes - Page 425

From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.

The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind and the will; we must act on them, we must experiment on them, we must let them permeate our consciousness.

Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there is no one who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which thou art a part.

I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!

Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.

Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.

Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.

I am, and have been for years, a confirmed anti-vaccinationist...I have not the least doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end.

All actors have to believe that our characters have a point that makes sense. Hopefully, they make sense to the crowd watching it, but at least he has to make sense in his own mind, in his own universe.

In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims. We must maintain freedom of thought, and never accept anything of purely human authority into our heads. When we are presented with a diversity of opinions, we must choose, if we can; if we cannot, we must remain in doubt.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.

The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.

If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

Channel a bohemian state of mind with an effortless dress paired with a must have embroidered moto jacket.

I am going to keep my mind (well, what's left of it) occupied by doing (and I never thought the day would come when I would say this) my homework.