Mind Quotes

The young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

The sky is not the limit. Your mind is.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

The heart and the mind ... what an enigma.

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART".

I was a worshipper of the foolhardy and the melodramatic, a dreamer and a moper, raging at life and loving it, a mind in a chrysalis yet erupting with sudden bursts of maturity.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.