--- title: "24 Individual Mind Quotes by 20 authors" description: "Browse 24 Individual Mind quotes by 20 authors. Discover the best Individual Mind sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/kaiten-nukariya-793_wisdom_enlightened-consciousness-16-buddha-dwel_1297492.jpg" --- > [“Enlightened Consciousness 16. Buddha Dwelling in the Individual Mind Enlightened Consciousness is not an Intellectual Insight”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kaiten-nukariya/enlightened-consciousness-16-buddha-dwelling-in-the-individual-mind/) [Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kaiten-nukariya/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/kaiten-nukariya-793_wisdom_enlightened-consciousness-16-buddha-dwel_1297492.jpg) > [It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hua-ching-ni/it-is-the-energy-projected-by-an-individual-s-own-mind-which-creates/) [Hua Ching Ni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hua-ching-ni/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a99/hua-ching-ni-86725_energy_it-is-the-energy-projected-by-an-individ_2384703.jpg) > [“There is no pretty, or ugly... There is only what the individual mind perceives~”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-sell/there-is-no-pretty-or-ugly-there-is-only-what-the-individual-mind/) [Aaron Sell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-sell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bb/aaron-sell-215861_psychology_there-is-no-pretty-or-ugly-there-is-only_1649728.jpg) > [“World peace is really inner peace within each individual mind.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vironika-tugaleva/world-peace-is-really-inner-peace-within-each-individual-mind/) [Vironika Tugaleva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vironika-tugaleva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f60/vironika-tugaleva-2648_inner-peace_world-peace-is-really-inner-peace-within_3128935.jpg) > [“Religion is an individual experience of a universal mind and universal experience of an individual mind.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ajmal-siddiqi/religion-is-an-individual-experience-of-a-universal-mind-and/) [Ajmal Siddiqi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ajmal-siddiqi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad1/ajmal-siddiqi-216855_inspirational_religion-is-an-individual-experience-of_101115.jpg) > [“An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-willey/an-individual-who-has-in-his-mind-that-he-can-accomplish-a-certain/) [Daniel Willey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-willey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fc/daniel-willey-19039_accomplish_an-individual-who-has-in-his-mind-that-h_1372036.jpg) > [Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lascelles-abercrombie/poetry-is-the-work-of-poets-not-of-peoples-or-communities-artistic/) [Lascelles Abercrombie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lascelles-abercrombie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c01/lascelles-abercrombie-25442_art_poetry-is-the-work-of-poets-not-of-peopl_2506037.png) > [For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/for-the-first-time-in-human-evolution-the-individual-life-is-long/) [William Irwin Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-irwin-thompson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07e/william-irwin-thompson-19769_change_for-the-first-time-in-human-evolution-th_3132909.png) > [I think an individual's mind is a marvellous thing. I truly believe that if your mind is strong, your body tries hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dev-anand/i-think-an-individual-s-mind-is-a-marvellous-thing-i-truly-believe/) [Dev Anand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dev-anand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86a/dev-anand-23615_believe_i-think-an-individual-s-mind-is-a-marvel_2118464.jpg) > [No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-howe/no-one-has-ever-seen-the-self-it-has-no-visible-shape-nor-does-it/) [Irving Howe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-howe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cc/irving-howe-27693_abstraction_no-one-has-ever-seen-the-self-it-has-no_2147985.jpg) > [Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/reality-exists-in-the-human-mind-and-nowhere-else-not-in-the/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf1/george-orwell-57_cases_reality-exists-in-the-human-mind-and-now_902395.jpg) > [We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/we-re-living-in-a-homogenized-culture-where-everything-is-the-same/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/142/jeanette-winterson-166_book_we-re-living-in-a-homogenized-culture-wh_1489968.png) > [I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damon-dash/i-ve-never-tried-to-be-accepted-when-everyone-is-doing-one-thing-i-ve/) [Damon Dash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damon-dash/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/807/damon-dash-4538_history_i-ve-never-tried-to-be-accepted-when-eve_1234337.jpg) > [The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-lee/the-core-of-understanding-lies-in-the-individual-mind-and-until-that/) [Bruce Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e88/bruce-lee-430_art_the-core-of-understanding-lies-in-the-in_1759110.jpg) > [You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/you-believe-that-reality-is-something-objective-external-existing-in/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/558/george-orwell-57_assuming_you-believe-that-reality-is-something-ob_3072133.jpg) > [Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kennedy/art-establishes-the-basic-human-truths-which-must-serve-as-the-2/) [John F. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kennedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f5/john-f-kennedy-246_art_art-establishes-the-basic-human-truths-w_2524345.jpg) > [The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-pearson/the-classification-of-facts-and-the-formation-of-absolute-judgments/) [Karl Pearson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-pearson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/063/karl-pearson-25336_aim_the-classification-of-facts-and-the-form_2318970.png) > [But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/but-when-reflexion-begins-to-play-upon-these-objects-like-some-trick/) [Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/259/walter-pater-9808_chamber_but-when-reflexion-begins-to-play-upon-t_2048597.jpg) > [“Enlightened Consciousness in the individual mind acquires for its possessor, not a relative knowledge of things as his intellect does, but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kaiten-nukariya/enlightened-consciousness-in-the-individual-mind-acquires-for-its/) [Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kaiten-nukariya/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26f/kaiten-nukariya-793_psychology_enlightened-consciousness-in-the-individ_2157827.jpg) > [If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/if-there-be-an-order-in-which-the-human-race-has-mastered-its-various/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/296/herbert-spencer-1765_acquire_if-there-be-an-order-in-which-the-human_2888445.jpg) > [“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/our-species-is-the-only-creative-species-and-it-has-only-one-creative-3/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d30/john-steinbeck-71_creativity_our-species-is-the-only-creative-species_2769135.jpg) > [“Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/analysis-goes-a-step-farther-still-and-assures-us-that-those/) [Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d7/walter-pater-9808_criticism_analysis-goes-a-step-farther-still-and-a_1167485.jpg) > [“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/our-species-is-the-only-creative-species-and-it-has-only-one-creative/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64f/john-steinbeck-71_freedom_our-species-is-the-only-creative-species_714741.jpg) > [“I don't myself think much of science as a phase of human development. It has given us a lot of ingenious toys;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/i-don-t-myself-think-much-of-science-as-a-phase-of-human-development/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/987/willa-cather-634_easter-sunday_i-don-t-myself-think-much-of-science-as_1002952.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/individual-mind/#itemlist", "name": "Individual Mind Quotes", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Enlightened Consciousness 16. 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