Mind Quotes
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Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana.
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I like making fun of myself; I don't want to make fun of other people, so I don't mind doing something out of character that some people might not expect me to do.
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The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.
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No one has the audacity to exclaim: 'I don’t want to do anything!' -we are more indulgent with a murderer than with a mind emancipated from actions.
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The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.
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In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?
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The human mind has a superglue-like quality: Once a viewpoint has been plucked from the swirling chaos of beliefs and explanations, then the mind quickly solidifies that view, resisting any future modification.
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Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.
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The mind is never blank. If it were… how would you know?
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If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.
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I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.
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...so I blocked it from my mind. I could do that with things I didn't want to think about, like snapping shut a book.
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Anything is possible if you put your mind to it and you really work hard.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind.
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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.
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People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds.
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The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a vision and wonder of the world and themselves that may be new to them or reveal something already familiar in new and enlightening ways.
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Boston is a state of mind.
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Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause.
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...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.
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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
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Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.
