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Tuesday, 8 July 2008
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"There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue." (Burke, Edmund - Tolerance)

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Browse Quotations about Mind

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
A mind grows by what it feeds on.
A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
All the resources we need are in the mind
All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.
Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.
Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.
Half this game is 90% mental.
Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
-- Philo | Mind
How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.
If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.
If you never change your mind, why have one?
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Is there no way out of the mind?
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.
It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
Mind is the great lever of all things.
Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.
Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Mind moves matter.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.