Mind Altering Quotes

#1. Revisiting 'Leave It to Beaver,' and seeing it in the pristine visual clarity of digital restoration, are mood-altering if not quite mind-altering experiences, very much for the better.

Tom Shales

#2. A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.

Paul Fleischman

#3. Why do I do it? Because I enjoy its effects. You know, I - why does anybody use any mind-altering substance, you know, because they like the way it makes them feel.

Mark Stepnoski

#4. The best mind altering drug is the truth.

Lily Tomlin

#5. Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

Anthony Kiedis

#6. When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.

Amy Sedaris

#7. Books are the safest and greatest mind-altering substances in the world. But be safe; don't read and drive.

H.E. Fairbanks

#8. With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.

Ted Nugent

#9. He couldn't help but give in to the occasional temptation to replay past events in his mind, altering them, changing them from cruel to comfortable, from sad to happy, from unfair to accommodating. Anything was possible in his imagination. Any ending. If only thinking it could make it so.

Kevin Henkes

#10. Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have "a mind-altering experience," who had read herself straight out of Mormonism and into Eastern religious thought
but refused to replace one dogma with another.

Terry Tempest Williams

#11. And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.

Michel Faber

#12. Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first time

Sara Sheridan

#13. It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.

Bryan Cranston

#14. I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

Parker Posey

#15. I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

A.C. Grayling

#16. The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

Stephen King

#17. It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime ... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered behaviour from the public.

Steve Fowler

#18. Damian!" I cry, bolting across the room and leaping into his longing arms, which he tightly enfolds about me. Our eager mouths collide in a mind-altering, body-awakening kiss.

Lena Black

#19. Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

Anne Lamott

#20. Felt pressure, sensed texture and perceived space can work upon the body and so too upon the mind, altering the textures and inclinations of thought.

Robert Macfarlane

#21. I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Jeanette Winterson

#22. I had never been tempted to take drugs of any kind and especially not mind-altering ones, but when Mizuko introduced me to Provigil, which she described as mind-enhancing, I took two.

Olivia Sudjic

#23. Come on, guys, I am a computer nerd. I love Hollywood and movies. My whole life is like a movie. I wouldn't be who I am if it wasn't for the mind-altering glimpse at the future in 'Star Wars.'

Kim Dotcom

#24. Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of this dangerous, mind-altering philosophy in tax supported schools, parks, museums, etc. is a clear violation of the First Amendment.

Kent Hovind

#25. Although Carroll is now something of an iconic figure for psychedelic drug users, there is only the tiniest shred of evidence that he ever took laudanum, morphine, cocaine, magic mushrooms or indeed that he sampled any mind-altering drugs at all.

Jenny Woolf

#26. I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

John Stuart Mill

#27. You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

William James

#28. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William Jones

#29. Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.

David Bohm

#30. The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

William James

#31. Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.

Kathleen McDonald

#32. I had been hoping and waiting for some mind-blowingly fantastic, world-altering event to finally shatter the endless monotony of my public education.

Ernest Cline

#33. One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

William James

#34. The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. Mind control aims to change a person to the very core by altering their decisions, perception, beliefs, values, behaviors and relationships.

Jeffery Dawson

#36. We must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is here that we will have a life-altering shift in perception, an opening of our heart.

Debbie Ford

#37. To alter the universe, alter your thoughts, because the only universe you will ever know is in your mind.

Bryant McGill

#38. Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

#39. Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

William Shakespeare