Mind Quotes - Page 483

Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries, as well as lively and authoritative commentaries by some of today's leading neuroscientists. It will be enjoyed by professionals and general readers alike.

As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster.

Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.

Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.

We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.

Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.

Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.

A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.

Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of wit in them that makes a good-natured noise like laughter through the keyhole of the reader's mind.

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.

For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible matter, but an image that is perceived by the mind alone: God, who alone is truly God.

If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.

The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.

The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.

A promise unkept will take a man's mind.

And if you think I won't say bulls**t to the President, I say move on, cause I'll say what's on my mind.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.