Mind Quotes · Page 242

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

— Aesop

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

— David Hockney

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Still the mind. Inhale peace. Let go of worries. Exhale stress. Notice the breath. Connect to all. Embrace calm.

— Mary Davis

“That last voice in his head. It hadn't been Billy's. It was his own.”

— Barry Lyga

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

— Anonymous

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will…

— Indira Gandhi

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

— Louis Pasteur

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…

— William James

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of…

— Louisa May Alcott

Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

— Harry Hooton

God took me out of the world. He refined me and took my mind out of acting. I didn't have the desire…

— Demond Wilson

“Antoine knew what it was like to flee, to shed a life as though it were a cloak. He had learned to…

— Samantha Sotto

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.''…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than…

— Donald Miller

I'm not going to look back. 'Don't look back, something might be gaining on you.' I don't have anything specific in mind.…

— Richard Cotovsky

I don't know when the idea of suicide first occurred to me. In some ways, it had been in the back of…

— Tracy Thompson

To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,…

— Richard Bausch

“The college dreamed on-- awake. He felt a nervous excitement that might have been the very throb of its slow heart. It…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Turning, he wondered about the room as he looked it over. In all likelihood, it probably housed slaves before the servants. Slaves.…

— Staci Stallings

Our lives are born of the Ki of the universe. Let us give thanks for being born not as plants and animals,…

— Koichi Tohei

I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly…

— Kay Ryan

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

— Jasper Fforde

All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what…

— Richelle Mead

I don't mind players earning money, but it should mean, at the same time, that the club is doing good.

— Henrik Larsson

The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

— Bruce Lee

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might…

— Brian Clough

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

— Samuel Johnson

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

— John Searle

We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry

— Edward Young

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

— Rodman Philbrick

“To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.

— Tori Amos

...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

— Huangbo Xiyun

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

— Cecelia Ahern

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

— Bonnie Raitt

You can erase someone of your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.

— Anonymous

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

— George Eliot