Mind Quotes - Page 506

What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

When I hear music I want to engage in it. Even if I engage in it very quickly and turn it off in my mind. If I'm in an elevator, clearly I don't want to be dealing with that, even if it's Mozart. In fact, especially if it's Mozart. I don't think Mozart belongs in an elevator.

Boston is a state of mind.

The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail.

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

Oh, how hard it is to find The one just suited to our mind!

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

There is nothing in your mind which wasn't experienced before hand.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.

I can't wait until I touch the stage, I'm going to catch the spirit and lose my mind.

My mind moves very fast. I go through a lot of moods and emotions.

When youre a kid, youre only exposed to whats going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.

In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.