Mind Quotes - Page 616

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

The problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart.

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

One of the hardest things for the president is to distinguish the routine issues that come through from the essential issues that affect the long term, and not to let himself get sucked into the battles of the bureaucracy for marginal issues, and to keep them focused and to keep his mind clear on what the fundamental things are that he has to accomplish.

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

When ignorance mobilizes, it's always the free minds it destroys first.

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes.

Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.

There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind.