Mind Quotes

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.

I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.