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Mind Quotes
"Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand."
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"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
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"In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them."
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"I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are."
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"I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind."
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"The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little."
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"When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum."
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"I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself."
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"The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible."
Mind,
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"Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them."
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"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."
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"You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you."
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"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."
Mind,
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"Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution."
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"It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
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"Mind lives in comparisons, and the moment you drop comparisons, mind disappears."
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"To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception."
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"There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them."
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"I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while."
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"Don't you ever think that your mind can never harm you just because it is your mind! Your mind can really kill you. From dawn to the time you retire, your mind can be a very good friend to you and your mind can also be your worst friend. What goes into your mind each day becomes your friend so mind your mind!"
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"Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusions are their own bible story. To break them free, is to break their faith in signs. That is why so many feel lost."
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"Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself."
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"The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom."
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"A thought comes when it will, not when I will."
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"An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof."
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