Mind Quotes
-
Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
-
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
-
If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease
-
I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of a sudden the idea of Harry just appeared in my mind's eye.
-
Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.
-
There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.
-
Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.
-
Lust weakens both body and mind.
-
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
-
We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.
-
There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.
-
A taste is subtle sense and the genius is a sublime mind.
-
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.
-
Boston is a state of mind.
-
I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration for others, and peace of mind. Instead, I'm a fury of annoyance.
-
At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.
-
Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!
-
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.
-
When our Founding Fathers wrote the historic words 'all men are created equal,' they probably didn't have people like me in mind.
-
Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
-
It becomes necessary to realize that the body is not conscious, but we are conscious of the body, also that the mind is not conscious but we are conscious of the mind.
-
I consider Ric Flair to be one of the great comedic minds. But I never got to see him growing up because that was back when they still had territories.
-
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
-
The sentiment that I had a little trouble with was the idea that, "You change the school, you change the community." I couldn't wrap my mind around that.
