No greater problem is presented to the human mind.
It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.
Every day, women and girls are finding incredible confidence and taking risks. When they change one mind, pretty soon, they have changed one tradition. That changed tradition has changed a village. That one village has changed a country. That new reality means new opportunities for themselves and their daughters.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Wellness is the compete integration of body, mind, and spirit – the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being.
I view Bitcoin as the more democratic version of money and value transfer because no one controls it… I expect the Internet to be around longer than any nation-state, so a nation-state-backed currency is actually less safe than an Internet currency in my mind.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind.
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the ‘Mind of God’ is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace.
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Music is the medicine of the mind.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
The mind is the greatest weapon in the world.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to our total well-being – in body, mind, and spirit.
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind’s tearing tension.
With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
I feel like anything I’m doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I’ve always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life.
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
If you put your mind to it, anything is possible.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.
In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
