Quotes on Mind

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.

I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.

It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.