Mind Quotes

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

~ Albert Einstein

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

~ Jay Griffiths

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

~ Ramana Maharshi

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

~ Abu Bakr

The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

~ Patrick Soon-Shiong

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

~ Ernest Holmes

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

~ Roger Bacon

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

~ Jaron Lanier

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

~ Saint Augustine

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

~ Mark Rylance

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

~ L. Ron Hubbard

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

~ Meher Baba

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

~ Mary Baker Eddy

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

~ Eckhart Tolle

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

~ Rosa Parks

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

~ Harry S Truman

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

~ Thomas Hobbes

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

~ George Matthew Adams

We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.

~ Nate Berkus

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

~ Sylvia Browne

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

~ Dale Carnegie

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

~ Dale Carnegie

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

~ Sterling Hayden

An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.

~ Debbie Ford

Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

~ Bram Stoker

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

~ Edmund Burke

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

~ Denis O'hare

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

~ Kevin Whately

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

~ Bernard Law Montgomery

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

~ Maggie Kuhn

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

~ Chauncey Depew

Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.

~ Buzz Aldrin

I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind.

~ Ethan Zohn

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

~ Edward Walker

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

~ James Humes

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

~ David Joseph Schwartz