Mind Quotes

I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.

~ George Strait

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

~ Karen Thompson Walker

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

~ Ronnie O'sullivan

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

~ Plutarch

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

~ Albert Camus

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

~ Alan Kay

There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.

~ Gray Scott

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

~ Ken Robinson

When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Saying there's a silence is a bit like if Columbus, looking to discover a new continent, only sailed 10 miles off the coast of Spain before turning back to say, 'Nothing out there!'

~ Seth Shostak

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

~ Albert Camus

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

~ Huston Smith

The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.

~ Maria Montessori

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

~ Mark Twain

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

~ Virginia Woolf

Training and education is one and the same: that is, to train the mind through a discipline in order to awake the inner intelligence of the individuals.

~ Lobsang Tenzin

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

~ Phaedrus

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

~ George Bancroft

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

~ Raymond Holliwell

I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.

~ Gemma Whelan

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

~ Zig Ziglar

Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new.

~ Brian Grazer

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

~ Thomas J. Watson

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

~ James A. Baldwin

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

~ John Stuart Mill

I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.

~ William Godwin

My parents were the ones who gave me the independence, who gave me the spark to do anything that you set your mind to, as all parents should do for their kids.

~ Marlee Matlin

Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.

~ Herbert Croly

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

~ William S. Burroughs

I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

~ Huey Newton

I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

~ Cesar Millan

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

~ Jeffrey Kluger

To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God.

~ Meir Soloveichik

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

~ Phaedrus

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

~ Benjamin Franklin

I've prioritized taking care of my mind, having fun, and doing things that make me laugh. And eating well - as in, really good food, like steak or pasta or fresh vegetables or an amazing dessert. You know, 'treat yo'self.'

~ Phillipa Soo

Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.

~ Nicole Mones

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero