Mind Quotes · Page 375

The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.”

— Aldous Huxley

Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home.

— Anodea Judith

I love cooking; it's a very good way to get your mind off things.

— David Cameron

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

— Duane Michals

As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God

— Paramahansa Yogananda

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson

The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a…

— Jennifer Coolidge

My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have Eeyore on them." "I like…

— Ilona Andrews

When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ…

— Frederick Lenz

In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see…

— Joan Didion

“A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so…

— Patience Johnson

The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be,…

— Richard Cecil

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you…

— Jack Benny

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my…

— Billie Piper

The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the…

— Samuel Johnson

I wanted people to feel me as a person. I do this music for the people, man, so at the end of…

— Ace Hood

When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think…

— Jim Woodring

If he's not calling you, it's because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn't…

— Greg Behrendt

The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking;…

— Shunryu Suzuki

There are so many comics about violence. I'm not entertained or amused by violence, and I'd rather not have it in my…

— Dave McKean

Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of…

— Graves B. Erskine

“No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But…

— James Surowiecki

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

— Werner Herzog

Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

— Amit Ray

There is no question in my mind that the health care system has to work.

— Ron Williams

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

— Samuel Butler

The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.

— Sol Stein

“He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person’s life.”

— Sreesha Divakaran

We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.

— Tim Hawkins

Why so serious? Has always been a question on his mind, why not yours.

— Anonymous

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

— Timothy Keller

Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad

— Claude Monet

“the brain's activity—and, indeed, the activity of our nervous system in total—is our mind.”

— David DiSalvo

It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.

— Wallace Stevens

The mentality is nonstop, to work for what you want, your mind keeping your body in the best shape possible.

— Cain Velasquez

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

— Maya Angelou

When I imagine some music in my mind, almost automatically, I imagine the piano keys.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives,

— Philip Larkin