Quotes on Mind

True love's the gift which God has given_x000D_ _x000D_ To man alone beneath the heaven._x000D_ _x000D_ It is the secret sympathy,_x000D_ _x000D_ The silver link, the silken tie,_x000D_ _x000D_ Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,_x000D_ _x000D_ In body and in soul can bind.

In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows._x000D_ _x000D_ Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

Only the free mind knows what Love is.

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

People don't mind being challenged to do better if they _x000D_ _x000D_ know the request is coming from a caring heart

Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves - apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge - and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers - but not to us as psychologists - because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting present of a single generation, its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways in the the air and in the sea. There is nothing in the Universe more alone than Man. He has entered into the strange world of history.

The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.