Quotes about Mind
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
— Nancy Pearcey
If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.
— Bill Johnson
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want
— F Scott Fitzgerald
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Aromatherapy is extremely useful. If you want to go to sleep at night, and you have an aroma that calms your mind, it will help you sleep.
— Deepak Chopra
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
— Stephen Covey
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.
— Stephen Jay Gould
You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.
— Marianne Williamson
No concept is a carrier of life.
— Carl Jung
The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.
— Charles Spurgeon
Poise is the strength of body and strength of mind to control your Sympathy and your Knowledge. Unless you control your emotions they run over and you stand in the mire.
— Elbert Hubbard
What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person.
— Eleanor Roosevelt