Mind Quotes - Page 128

All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.

[Emily Litella line:] Never mind.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

I'm very open to all different genres because I'm a very open-minded girl.

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for me, however, I have already made so much of Scripture my own that I have more than enough to meditate on and turn over in my mind. I need no more . .. I know Christ, the poor crucified One.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned the lessons of how to do it, with ledgers of 'hows' balanced with 'its' that dissolve in the crashing changes ahead. The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of complexity that psychoanalysis does. But psychoanalysis has a degree of uncertainty about it. A psychoanalyst may have some deep insights, but cannot, at the moment, run experiments to establish whether it's really the truth.

Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

The body does not create the mind; the Mind creates the body.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?

We do not see through our eyes alone.

The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.