Mind Quotes - Page 603

Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.

Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances.

I'm not suffering from withdrawal symptoms. I would say that I have a balanced state of mind.

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word I've said, every thought I've thought, everything I've done, been tied up, weighted, chained? And mind you, I know that with all this I don't succeed. Or I succeed in flashes only too damned well. ...But think how hard I try and how seldom I dare. Think - and have a bit of pity. That is, if you ever think, you apes, which I doubt.

When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.

We have new media, new forms of connectivity, and an enormous transference of knowledge. When you study evolution, you see that when new genes meet and multiply, they create new contexts and new species. In a sense, the gene-pool of knowledge and of people connecting at all levels is literally spawning a kind of mind-pool of possibilities.

Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

Happiness is the default state of mind, lets reconfigure to reach the default state !

For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... It's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians, by America in general.

When I do music I don't do it with a purpose in mind. I just feel like it's a little bit contrived if you try to do something like that. It's got to come organically.

The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning, and the extent to which they promote for blacks and whites alike a completely rewarding participation in American life.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

Great minds sink alike, right?

Barack Obama now says he is open to offshore oil drilling. So, apparently, when he promised change, he was talking about his mind.

George W. Bush says he spends sixty to ninety minutes a day working out. He says he works out because it clears his mind. Sometimes just a little too much.

People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.

In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.

Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.