Mind Quotes · Page 424

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

— Naguib Mahfouz

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

— Mark Twain

my face I don't mind it, Because I'm behind it-- 'Tis the folks in the front that I jar.

— Anthony Euwer

Beginning and ending are common in the circumference of the circle and the radius doesn't mind it.

— Vikrant Parsai

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.

— Anonymous

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

— Terry Riley

“As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.”

— Victor Hugo

Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works.

— Samuel Scheffler

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the…

— Jupiter Hammon

I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart,…

— Kevin Brooks

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Did you know that the heart has no pain receptors? So the next time someone breaks you heart, move on. Your pain…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him…

— Joseph Addison

Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible.

— Joel S. Goldsmith

Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives…

— Rajneesh

Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.

— John Kao

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers…

— Washington Irving

We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling.…

— Robert P. George

... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind… A new…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And,…

— Pico Iyer

Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. By letting go of even the thought 'I,' and 'me'…

— Ram Dass

It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate…

— Richard P. Feynman

Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising…

— Richard Dawkins

Looking at Donna Jordan, 'top model' was not the first thing that popped into your mind.

— Patti D'Arbanville

Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.

— Guido Molinari

We now understand the importance of a healthy mind as well as a healthy body.

— Gavin Williamson

Once I've sent my mind to something I like to see it through.

— Alex Brooker

The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it…

— Sherry Turkle

When I'm in the studio with a writer, I don't mind for them to take the lead and show me something new.

— Stefflon Don

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

— Annie Dillard

I like to just have fun and be silly and say pretty much whatever comes into my mind, do pretty much whatever…

— Tom Ford

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

— Baruch Spinoza

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.

— John Steinbeck

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

— Nhat Hanh

To me, the mind and body are one. I'm very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what…

— Deepika Padukone

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

— George Bancroft

I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of…

— Christiaan Huygens

...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.

— Charles Darwin