Mind Quotes - Page 207

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.

If I'm sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn't mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, 'never say never.' You never know, I might end up joining politics.

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.

Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune.

When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.

Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

When there is a fight of reason versus emotion and the mind wonders which one to follow, in most times, emotion wins over reason. But it is reason that should win and emotion shouldn't.

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind.