Quotes on Mind

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Along your pathway of life you will observe that you are not the only traveler. There are others who need your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save.

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.

There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!