Mind Quotes

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

~ George Sheehan

It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it.

~ Peter Redgrove

I once visited a village of primitive people.At village, I felt time and life moved slower.

~ Toba Beta

Not because we think that it's still about to happen, thus makes our future life as though yet to be exist.Human mind can't yet perceive the nature of future.

~ Toba Beta

Think of how you feel when you are sick, or how you felt when you were learning to ride your bike. The physical state of your body has a direct effect on how you think about the world, on the state of your mind. I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that your body has a direct effect on who you are

~ Gregory Bassham

The biggest game you will ever play is the game in your mind. Master your mind, master your world.

~ Kevin Abdulrahman

What you feed your mind, will lead your life.

~ Kemi Sogunle

There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes they are almost imperceptible. The water’s waves are churned up by the winds, which come and go and vary in direction and intensity, just as do the winds of stress and change in our lives, which stir up the waves in our minds.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

It's like I have a sensor in my head, but she works on a seven-second delay... well-meaning, but perpetually about seven seconds too late to actually do anything to stop the horrific avalanche of shit-you-shouldn't- say-out-loud-but-I-just-did.

~ Jenny Lawson

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.

~ Haruki Murakami

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

~ Barbara Hurd

WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.

~ António R. Damásio

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way...

~ Milton H. Erickson

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.

~ J.k. Rowling

There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full, and the cryptic world is known; but I see rather that my own life hath been one long forgetting, the erasure of what was drawn, a terrible redaction; til all that remains is blank white and comfortless.I know not what we have been; I know not what we are; but I know what we might be.And so I light out for the unknown regions.

~ M.t. Anderson

What do you think it is that makes a manI started on the Definition. He cut me of after five words.It is not! he said. A wax figure could have all that, and he'd still be a wax figure, wouldn't he? ...Well, then, what makes a man a man is something inside him.A soul? I suggested.No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quality, and minds aren't all the same value; they're better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean.

~ John Wyndham

Mind makes a man of God.

~ Emmanuel Diogu

I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon - very soon - it will burst into consciousness.

~ Daniel Keyes

When indeed you positively press your face, so to speak, against the crystalline window of your eyes, your mind is apt to become a perfect vacuum.(Out Of The Deep)

~ Walter De La Mare

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.

~ David Mitchell

We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

~ Mark Millar

Each action we take is an act of self-expression. We often think of large-scale or important deeds as being indications of our real selves, but even how we sharpen a pencil can reveal something about our feelings at that moment. Do we sharpen the pencil carefully or nervously so that it doesn’t break? Do we bother to pay attention to what we’re doing? How do we sharpen the same pencil when we’re angry or in a hurry? Is it the same as when we’re calm or unhurried?Even the smallest movement discloses something about the person executing the action because it is the person who’s actually performing the deed. In other words, action doesn’t happen by itself, we make it happen, and in doing so we leave traces of ourselves on the activity. The mind and body are interrelated.

~ H.e. Davey

Games lubricate the body and mind.

~ Benjamin Franklin

But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty. McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. It isn’t man or God. It’s something...in the brain.

~ Stephen King

We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed

~ Thomas Gilovich

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

~ Thomas Gilovich

We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phenomena, and the more wonderful do both the brain events and the mental phenomena become. Promissory materialism is simply a religious belief held by dogmatic materialists . . . who often confuse their religion with their science.

~ John C. Eccles

Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body can only exist in the present, that’s where the mind should be too (unless we deliberately choose to contemplate the past or future). At the same time, the body needs to be healthy and in optimum operating condition so that it can respond effectively to the mind’s directives.

~ H.e. Davey

How do we distinguish between the legitimate skepticism of those who scoffed at cold fusion, and the stifling dogma of the seventeenthcentury clergymen who, doubting Galileo's claim that the earth was not the center of the solar system, put him under house arrest for the last eight years of his life? In part, the answer lies in the distinction between skepticism and closed-mindedness. Many scientists who were skeptical about cold fusion nevertheless tried to replicate the reported phenomenon in their own labs; Galileo's critics refused to look at the pertinent data.

~ Thomas Gilovich

Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.

~ Gary Davis

Invariably, we all are 'MIND LORDS'.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Mind your mind, soon, you will mine from it.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Living threads more numerous than stars frame the universe of my mind.

~ Daniel P. Kimble

Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.

~ H.e. Davey

A veiled Mind is more enticing than all the nude men lining up the Seine, during Summer.

~ Aainaa-Ridtz

The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)

~ Swami Satchidananda

Don't live in regret! It is such a useless idea.Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope,trying to revise the bitter memory of the past.

~ Toba Beta

Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

~ Paul Brunton