Quotes and Sayings About Mind
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There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
-- Albert Camus -
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
-- Albert Camus -
You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.
-- Albert Camus -
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
-- Albert Einstein -
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
-- Albert Einstein -
The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap
-- Albert Einstein -
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
-- Albert Einstein -
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein -
A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.
-- Albert Einstein -
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein -
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size
-- Albert Einstein -
It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.
-- Albert Ellis -
I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.
-- Albert Finney -
Misery leads to crime. I saw so many boys whipped it ruined my mind.
-- Albert Fish -
An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.
-- Albert Hadley -
It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant also is how he came to think it, why he continued to think it, or, if he did not continue, what the influences were which caused him to change his mind .
-- Albert J. Nock -
Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.
-- Albert J. Nock -
In my heart and mind, I know I can hit anybody. I'm always relaxed. It's hard to explain. It's like playing with my kids. It feels natural.
-- Albert Pujols -
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.
-- Alberto Manguel -
With imagination, we can hold a universe inside our minds.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.
-- Aldo Leopold -
When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
-- Aldous Huxley -
You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.
-- Aldous Huxley -
A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
-- Aldous Huxley -
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.
-- Aldous Huxley
