Mind Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.”
– Ben Goldacre

“To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.”
– Ursula K.Le Guin

“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.”
– Sivananda Saraswati

“The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.”
– Rae Carson

“You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.”
– James M. Cain

“Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector—mind—rather than the projected. It’s like when there’s a piece of lint on a projector’s lens. We think there’s a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears on next. But it’s futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself. This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise.”
– Byron Katie

“A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn’t conceive what it hasn’t experienced”
– Graham Greene

“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.”
– Huang Po

“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”
– Frank McCourt

“. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .”
– Charles Dickens

“Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.”
– Louis Zukofsky

“When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions – such as merit, such as past, present, and future – our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.”
– Peter Mattiessen

“The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people’s perception of you rather than people’s perception of you.”
– Criss Jami

“One thought I think every person eventually thinks is, “Holy shit, I’m going to die!” Sorry, I just turned thirty yesterday, so my mortality is on my mind.
– Jarod Kintz

“Consider yourself. I want you to imagine a scene from your childhood. Pick something evocative… Something you can remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all, you really were there at the time, weren’t you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you WEREN’T there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place. Every bit of you has been replaced many times over… The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, whilst simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.”
– Steve Grand

“As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul.”
– Santosh Kalwar

“Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn’t needed the transportation.”
– Anne Lamott

“A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.”
– John Henry Newman

“We move between two darknesses.”
– E.M. Forster

“The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.”
– Blaise Pascal

“I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a hundred alternative routes present themselves. I choose one, no sooner begin, than a hundred more appear. Every time I try to narrow down my intent I expand it, and yet those straits and canals still lead me to the open sea, and then I realize how vast it all is, this matter of the mind. I am confounded by the shining water and the size of the world.”
– Jeanette Winterson

“As Lucretius says: ‘Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.’ But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.”
– Illyas kassam

“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”
– Hans Margolius

“Stuff your brain with knowledge.”
– karl Lagerfeld

“The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.”
– Stephen King

“My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.”
– John Marsden

“Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.”
– Criss Jami

“There are no limits to the mind except those that we acknowledge.”
– Napoleon Hill

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