Quotes about Mind

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

Everything that occurs in our confused mind we can regard as the path.

The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.

Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.

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

From the premise that Christianity is true it follows that the far-off glimpse of joy produced by fantasy is a glimpse of truth; that a great eucatastrophic tale like The Lord of the Rings is a gift of divine grace, an opening of the curtain that veils Heaven to earthly eyes, a tiny telepathic contact with the Mind of God.