Mind Quotes
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We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.
Daniel Kahneman
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Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.
Sarah Churchwell
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Our faith should be expressed in working toward a better planet for our children and not the selfish, juvenile hope for a better afterlife for ourselves. I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
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Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.
William Shenstone
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The man who built the manger had a purpose in mind... God had another. You'll never know how far reaching God's plan is for your work.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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It is perhaps due to the fact that our own modern art is often content to work from low irrational levels of the mind alone, that our civilization has become so receptive to the art of other civilizations... the complex diffuse substructure of all art.
Anton Ehrenzweig
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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Confucius
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Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.
Will Self
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Certain moments remain in the mind with such force and clearness that one suspects they must be invented; that they are not held in the memory but generated out of the imagination.
John Banville
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For excess breeds hubris, when great prosperity comes to men of unsound mind.
Bettany Hughes
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Those The heart should be free from hypocrisy, the heart of man should be perfectly pure. What the heart thinks, the tongue should talk. What one thinks, one must talk. Nobody you should deceive; nobody you should hate. You must not mix with others. Your mind must always be one pointed.
Bhagawan Nityananda
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The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
Jim DeMint
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Under pressure, you can win with your mind.
Tiger Woods
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The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
John Milton
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If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
Gautama Buddha
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You have got the right strategy, the right geography; you have got the right customers. You need to prioritise them better; we need to grow them better, mind them better. We need to give more value to them, and we need to execute a lot of areas in the organisation where we are not executing.
Azim Premji
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1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.
Carrie Vaughn
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Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.
Robert Phillips
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Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw.
Noelle Scaggs
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Paradise is a state of mind.
Dolly Parton
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The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
Honore de Balzac
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In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related.
Richard Feynman
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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.
Adrian Hodges
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Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
John Lennon The Beatles