Mind Quotes - Page 125

We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

Idle hands make fretful minds.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

You don't buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls.

Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so well, what a mind thinks is as dominated by biological patterns as social patterns are dominated by biological patterns and as biological patterns are dominated by inorganic patterns. There is no direct scientific connection between mind and matter. As the atomic scientist, Niels Bohr, said, "We are suspended in language." Our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived.

Escape your situation through your mind and your actions.

Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It’s a parasite regarded as a virtue. I speak as a representative of the scientific faction of atheism: it’s one thing we simply cannot compromise on. Faith is wrong.

I'm a tough girl, I know what my job entails - it entails a lot more than standing in front of the camera. So I get it. I won't deny the physicality of it is exhausting, and sometimes my body just can't keep up. But it is ultimately about mind over matter.

I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.