Mind Quotes · Page 369

Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

— Alfred Kinsey

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

— Neil Simon

Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

— Billy Squier

I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.

— Carla Bruni

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

— Sally Pearson

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

— Horace

I cannot afford to have one thought in my mind that is not in His

— Bill Johnson

Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.

— Edmund Waller

The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying…

— Francis William Bourdillon

I had to lull Mom and Hank into believing I was in the right frame of mind to be taken into public.…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's…

— Anonymous

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the 'sunken place' - that term is what I hear when I'm just casually living my life. People say it…

— Daniel Kaluuya

Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see 50…

— Anonymous

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man…

— Francis Bacon

“He clamped his eyes shut and waited for the pang of something he could no longer name to subside; it plucked at…

— J. Rose Black

Compassion goes on giving, but knows no feeling of giving, knows no feeling that "I am the giver." And then existence goes…

— Rajneesh

Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of…

— Arthur Miller

What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I…

— Vincent Van Gogh

... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him…

— Maria Montessori

You can think as Einstein as much as you want, but when you come in contact with another person as a work…

— Jaimoe

From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both…

— Arnold Palmer

I hate having my photograph taken and I try to keep that in mind when I'm photographing other people. But the best…

— Devendra Banhart

Have you ever wished you were somebody else? We all have at some point. But eventually we come to realize that the…

— Ron Atchison

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

The muscle and the mind must become one. One without the other is zero

— Lee Haney

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

— Lucretius

If you lose an argument it doesn't mean you change your mind but you have to accept the decision.

— Claire Fox

You always seem to come to mind. Most often, at the times when I don't want you too.

— Anonymous

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

— Elspeth Huxley

“A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.”

— Plutarch

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

— Paul Theroux

The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.

— Terence McKenna

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

— Ovid

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

— Deborah Tannen

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Whatever people see - TV in my mind forms people's opinions.

— Bob Dylan

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

— Horace

“The mind of man is capable of anything.” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary”

— Joseph Conrad