“One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“Hence that state of mind at once gloomy and euphoric which one associates with carrying out the rubbish; and the way we… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“For nine months of the year were trivial miseries, self-doubts, indecisions, and all those disgusts of preadolescence, when the body is dirty,… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Empiricism is not just an empirical method but also a theory of experience. Essentially, it conceives of human beings as passive and… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“It has not hurt,’ musingly repeated Leonard. ‘No, she is beyond the reach of distracting temptations and sorrows; it has only made… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
“It does not even seem to enter our minds that there might be some incongruity in praying to the God of peace,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The Immovable Object can also be construed as an idea whose time has come. It’s an idea of proportions that the human… — Carla R. Herrera Copy Share Image
“The sciences need philosophy; philosophy, in turn, needs the sciences. On both sides, certain naive minds, too confident in their own forces… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The only thing that [Amaranta] did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pleas to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“It’s better to fracture a myth and let it spread and let it cling to the gelatin minds of children over the… — Cameron Jace Copy Share Image
“How did the System Holmes machine become . . . a System Watson? Simple. Holmes says it himself: he had lost interest… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“What kind of understanding?" he murmured almost absently, his mind clearly on other, more provocative things. The trace of amusement in his… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did the… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My Princeton colleague… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The one that sticks out in my mind and has all along was the New York Times piece on Melania Trump.Calling her… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
When we are looking for someone to love, we do so with images of perfection in our mind. He/She has to be… — Mhargs Abuda Copy Share Image
“First, Olay needed to convince skin-care-savvy women that the new Olay products were just as good as, or better than, higher-priced competitors.… — A.G. Lafley Copy Share Image
“The second reason for which the military mind addresses itself to specific assumed situations is on the occasions when there may in… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“And if it be true that it is one of the tokens of the fully developed mind that it does not think… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A lot of 'Stranger Things' is having to be able to, in your mind, turn a little tennis ball into a huge… — Noah Schnapp Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century we will create more powerful fictions and more totalitarian religions than in any previous era. With the help… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
My mind is screaming, my heart rapidly beating. My throat started to get sore. A flashback of us popped onto my mind.… — Tiny Kp Copy Share Image
So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn’t say it. This… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I just want you to know that I can't get you out of my mind,not even for a second ,be it day… — Nikkie Copy Share Image
“It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
You're always on my mind, day and night When I think of you, all feels so right Need to have you, need… — CrYsTaL Copy Share Image
The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“Once I laughed when, I heard you saying that I'd be playing, solitaire, uneasy in my, easy chair. It never entered my… — Lorenz Hart Copy Share Image
A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“I am one beautiful and powerful son of a bitch,' he told himself. 'Smart as a whip, respected, prosperous, beloved and valuable.… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“I looked skyward and asked, "Jesus, why can't my mom be more like Your mom? She was there for You to the… — Jimmy Wayne Copy Share Image
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image