Mind Quotes
-
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
-
I just try to keep an open mind, and that's the way a lot of good things happen.
-
Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.
-
If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it.
-
If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity and knowledge seeking, and the ability to put it all together. There is a genuine spirituality about Darwin's thinking.
-
First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.
-
First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.
-
It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.
-
I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.
-
Anytime you put your mind on the results, you lose something in the moment.
-
To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.
-
Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.
-
Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
-
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
-
If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.
-
A copious manner of expression gives strength and weight to our ideas, which frequently make impression upon the mind, as iron does upon solid bodies, rather by repeated strokes than a single blow.
-
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
-
Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.
-
Ambition is the mind's immodesty.
-
You have people around the country who are benefitting from the steps that we've taken [with Obamacare] and as long as they continue to get helped, then at least I'll know in my own mind that the work we did here had a lasting impact.
-
One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.
-
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
-
Everyone needs an open mind and an accepting heart. With a combination of these two aspects, you will be able to communicate sensibly.
-
That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
