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Mind Quotes
"Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable."
Mind,
34
"I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman."
33
"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
33
"The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks."
33
"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."
Mind,
33
"The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little."
33
"I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using."
Mind,
33
"We're all dreaming, Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected. He wondered how much of the garbage that Donna had overheard he had seriously meant. He wondered how much of the insanity of the day--his insanity--had been real, or just induced as a contact lunacy, by the situation. Donna, always, was a pivot point of reality for him; for her this was the basic, natural question. He wished he could answer."
33
"Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear."
33
"You can only be afraid of what you think you know."
33
"A problem is a problem only when it is taken as a problem."
33
"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
Mind,
33
"If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream."
Mind,
32
"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."
32
"All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'"
Mind,
32
"I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality."
32
"Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea."
32
"By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new."
32
"The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams."
32
"The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one."
32
"You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go."
32
"That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence."
32
"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself."
31
"Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind."
Mind,
31
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