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Mind Quotes
"She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still."
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"Within the madness of my subliminal mind often brilliant thoughts are aligned."
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"It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions."
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"I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write."
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"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient - at others, so bewildered and so weak - and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! - We are to be sure a miracle every way - but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out."
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"She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences."
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"In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start."
Mind,
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"Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds."
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"You can shoo people away in real life, but not when they force their way in through the dream door."
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"You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."
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"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."
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"Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation...to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down."
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"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."
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"The last 30 minutes before you sleep is the time when the most fertile land of your subconscious is accessible! What you SOW is what you REAP!"
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"A mind that establishes indifference is the mind that builds failure."
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"If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction."
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"Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you think about something, it adds a bit of weight to your walk, and as you think about more and more things you are liable to feel heavier and heavier, until you are so burdened you cannot take any further steps, and can only sit and stare at the gentle movements of the ocean waves or security guards, thinking too hard bout too many things to do anything else."
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"To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking."
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"If the weather is summer in your mind, even the coldest winter will be hot for you! If the weather is winter in your mind, even the hottest summer will be cold for you!"
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"It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent."
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"If one could amputate part of one's consciousness..."
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"Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is, it is anticipating how it will be perceived."
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"The good part about having a mental disorder is having a valid reason for all the stupid things we do because of a damaged prefrontal cortex. However, the best part is seeing someone completely sane do the exact same things, without a valid excuse. This is the great equalizer of God and his little gift for all us crazy people to enjoy."
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"If you relax your mind, it can begin working for you."
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"That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever happened."
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