Mind Quotes
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No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly
C. S. Lewis
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The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.
Henry David Thoreau
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Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.
John Gregory Dunne
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It's a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind, I'm still 18 years old trying to emulate Pantera in my bedroom.
Johnny Christ
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I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also, there's no need for it; it uses up energy.
Joanna Lumley
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.
Terence McKenna
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What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.
Kazuaki Tanahashi
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The adventurous state of / mind is a high house // To enjoy life the adventurous / state of mind must be / grasped and maintained // The essential feature of adventure is that it is a / going forward into / unknown territory // The joy of adventure is unaccountable // This is the attractiveness of / art work. It is adventurous, / strenuous and joyful.
Agnes Martin
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Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
Carl von Clausewitz
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The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.
Ariel Garten
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I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.
Muhammad Ali
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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
Dean Koontz
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The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
Virginia Woolf
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Television has already been wholly colonized by corporate interests, which are now laying claim to our schools. The goal is not simply to sell products and strengthen the consumer culture. It is also to create a political culture that equates the corporate interest with the human interest in the public mind.
David Korten
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.
Jason Mraz
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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.
T. S. Eliot
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My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact.
Philipp Meyer
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'Down we go,' said Paddy. 'Now pray to Saint Anthony if you be a good Catholic-''I'm not,' snapped Fay, 'and if you'll give more mind to the boat and less to religion we’ll gain by it.'
Jack Vance
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There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame.
Anne Donovan
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Your fragile mind can't have forgotten the terrifying technothriller series known 'Scorpion'. Because it features the worst hacking scenes ever broadcast in any medium.
Annalee Newitz
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Everybody I run into goes, 'Hey, 'Best in Show!'' Or, 'Hey, that dog movie!' which I don't mind because I'm not too good on titles.
Fred Willard
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Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.
Marianne Williamson
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All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.
Cathleen Schine