Quotes and Sayings About Mind
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
Bearing in mind that "the market" is not an invention of capitalism but that it has existed for thousands of years in many different societies, social justice logically requires that the profits resulting from the operation of markets and infrastructures created by society be equitably shared within societies and in a larger context within the human family.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.
-- Ali Akbar Khan -
Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.
-- Ali Banisadr -
The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
-- Alice B. Toklas -
I've always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to do.
-- Alice Coachman -
It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.
-- Alice Cooper -
Metaphysicians tell us that it is easier to get the body well than to get the mind to realize its wellness.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
-- Alice Hoffman -
How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.
-- Alice James -
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
-- Alice Meynell -
My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.
-- Alice Meynell -
recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
-- Alice Meynell -
If we do not work on all three levels -- body, feeling, mind -- the symptoms of our distress will keep returning, as the body goes on repeating the story stored in its cells until it is finally listened to and understood.
-- Alice Miller -
It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.
-- Alice Munro -
I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
-- Alice Walker -
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
-- Alicia Machado -
Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.
-- Alicia Sacramone -
Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home
-- Aliko Dangote -
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
-- Alison Bechdel -
When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.
-- Alison Moyet -
Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.
-- Alison Sweeney -
The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.
-- Alistair Cooke -
My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.
-- Alister Hardy -
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.
-- Allan Bloom -
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
-- Allan H. Meltzer -
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
-- Allen Ginsberg
