Mind Quotes

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.

It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so.

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.

Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.