Quotes and Sayings About Mind
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The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
-- Abdullah Ibrahim -
No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
-- Abel Stevens -
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
-- Aberjhani -
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
-- Abigail Adams -
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 -
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.
-- Abraham Zaleznik -
You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
I'd rather stimulate your mind than emulate your purpose
-- Aceyalone -
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.
-- Adam Foulds -
So thirsty," Jack groaned. "So worried,"said the frog. I hope we don't starve to death." "Yes,"said Jill, "not starving to death would be nice." "So would not thirsting to death," said Jack "Thirsting isn't even a word," said Jill "It isn't?" "No." "Then what's the word?" "I dont know. You just can't." "Oh." This is, of course, the kind of inane conversation that occurs when people are slowly losing their minds.
-- Adam Gidwitz -
Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
-- Adam Gopnik -
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
-- Adam McKay -
I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
-- Adam Osborne -
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
-- Adam Savage -
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.
-- Adi Shankara -
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
-- Adi Shankara -
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.
-- Adolf Hitler
