Quotes on Mind

The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.