Top 100 Mind Is To Quotes
#1. The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#2. To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind ... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world.
Friedrich Hayek
#3. Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.
Rudolf Arnheim
#4. The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Aldous Huxley
#5. The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.
Louis Pasteur
#6. When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
Samuel Johnson
#7. To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on
Richard Gere
#8. Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.
Dan Deacon
#9. One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
Joseph Addison
#11. It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.
Emma Goldman
#12. One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.
Deepak Chopra
#13. Picture a girl with her arms full of small packages, too many to hold all at once. When they topple and fall all around her, she stoops down and scoops them all back up, literally re-collecting all the gifts that are already hers. To set your mind is to recollect truth that already belongs to you.
Emily P. Freeman
#14. We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.
Ilyas Kassam
#15. Never separate your mind from your heart when making relationship decisions. The purpose of the mind is to protect the heart.
Kevin Darne
#16. The best that you can do for your mind is to have no in-between state in your heart.
John De Ruiter
#17. No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.
Michael Strahan
#18. All of us evolve everyday! The more we introspect and try to gather ourselves, the more rapid will be the pace of our evolution. The only thing to keep in mind is to be true to yourself.
Ackshat Deoli
#19. The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
Seneca The Younger
#20. The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#21. The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.
Swami Vivekananda
#22. Yogi Bhajan shows us that a key to being the master of your own mind is to learn how to forgive yourself. So for today, just for one minute, practice forgiving yourself.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#24. Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.
Pierre Charron
#25. Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens - in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the Awakened One, the Enlightened One.
Rajneesh
#26. To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#27. The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body
Gabrielle Roth
#28. The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
Walter Lippmann
#29. Neuron is to Consciousness, what D.N.A. is to Life. Thus, Biology of Mind is to the twenty-first century, what Biology of Life was to the twentieth century.
Abhijit Naskar
#30. The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a 'dualistic' view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.
Gyalwa Dokhampa
#31. The goal of [Into My Mind] is to uplift and inspire. We've all been through some sort of adversity in our lives, by sharing mines, I hope to help others get through theirs. I've been through it and came out standing. I want the world to know that they can come out standing too.
Jana Chantel
#32. The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important.
Maya Tiwari
#34. The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.
Shirley Hufstedler
#35. One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.
Theodor Haecker
#36. The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.
George Santayana
#37. With the passage of time, the consequences of any event accumulated, and left more to undo. And the more there is to undo, the less likely the mind is to even try. This was perhaps one way time heals wounds, by making them feel less avoidable.
Michael Lewis
#38. The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the midst of your day-to-day duties, responsibilities, likes, dislikes, etc., will help you. All these become the very means for the purification of your heart.
Meher Baba
#39. Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
#40. The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.
Robert Adams
#41. The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Louis Pasteur
#42. Do you really not know that to praise a woman's mind is to abuse her? Is everyone not convinced that where there's cleverness there's no heart? Has it not been decided that a clever woman is a sort of monster who can feel nothing? Ask anyone, they'll all tell you so.
Karolina Pavlova
#43. To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others
Jane Austen
#44. The way of the mind is to study many things; the way of the Beingness is to focus on one thing ...
Mooji
#45. The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
#46. Think of ideas as a beat. To change a mind is to change the world.
Joan Konner
#47. If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.
Robert Greene
#48. The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.
Stephen Covey
#49. The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#50. Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.
Joseph Joubert
#51. Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.
Jerry Bridges
#52. Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
Jack Kornfield
#53. The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#55. The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost ... a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.
David W. Orr
#56. My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#57. The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.
Donald Barthelme
#58. Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that could get in the way. But success is the best revenge, so build yourself up rather than knock others down.
Tavi Gevinson
#59. To generalize is to be an idiot, said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are the lenses with which our intellects have to manage.
C.S. Lewis
#60. Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward De Bono
#61. Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.
Anthony De Mello
#62. I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#63. Maybe love is a risk, but it's a risk I'm willing to take and as you said, it's not a choice. I never thought I would, never thought I could love someone like that but I fell in love with you. I fought it. It's the first battle I didn't mind losing.
Cora Reilly
#64. The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it
Napoleon Hill
#65. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.
John O'Hara
#66. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Noah Webster
#67. Infinite money is available to a mind that is ready, willing, able, qualified and gives itself permission to earn and accept it.
Mark Victor Hansen
#68. Ear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget
Edgar Allan Poe
#69. Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
Idries Shah
#70. To run 100 miles and more is to bring the body to the point of breaking, to bring the mind to the point of destruction, to arrive at that place where you can alter your consciousness.
Scott Jurek
#71. Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
Henry Rollins
#72. Liberation of mind is realising that we don't need to buy any story at all. It's realising that before our confused thought, there actually is Reality. We can see it. All we have to do it to fully engage in this moment as it has come to be.
Steve Hagen
#73. The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.
Bruce Lee
#74. No matter whether your life is pleasant or good; whether you are having big challenges or no challenges, your state of your mind has everything to do with how you will relate to your experiences.
Louise Hay
#75. True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.
Ameen Rihani
#76. There is only one reason that you ever fail at anything ... and that is because you eventually change your mind. That's it! ... anything and everything you have ever decided to do, you have succeeded, or will succeed, at doing.
Victor L. Wooten
#77. I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing, infinitely perfect within, why cry, why worry, perfect like mind essence and the minds of banana peels.
Jack Kerouac
#78. The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#79. The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if ... ?' I just come in and do it.
Lance Henriksen
#80. The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.
Arnold Schoenberg
#81. The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.
Richard Cecil
#82. For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.
Joseph Conrad
#83. It's not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself.
Seanan McGuire
#84. If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.
Eminem
#85. I put Post-It notes everywhere to remind me of everything. I stick a ton of them on my computer monitor, telephone, and wallet. The problem now is that there are so many of them that my mind has blocked them all out. So I now need Post-It notes to remind me to look at my Post-It notes.
Stephan Pastis
#86. To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.
Kelsang Gyatso
#87. Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants.
John Cage
#88. Mind has a temptation to divide. Once you divide, mind is at ease. If you don't divide, if you say, "I'm not going to to say anything. I'm not going to judge," mind feels as if it is on its deathbed.
Osho
#89. It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
Caleb Cushing
#90. Attain complete emptiness,
Hold fast to stillness.
Understanding the ordinary:
Mind opens.
Mind opening leads to compassion,
Compassion to nobility,
Nobility to heavenliness,
Heavenliness to TAO.
TAO endures.
Your body dies.
There is no danger.
Lao-Tzu
#91. Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.
Jonah Lehrer
#92. The only way to take one's mind off it all is to study, and I do a lot of that.
Anne Frank
#93. How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.
Thomas Sowell
#94. When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
Dallas Willard
#96. How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God - ...
Brigham Young
#97. I suppose that one of the greatest benefits of studying Isaiah is the process of studying Isaiah. Searching the scriptures puts you in a pondering, searching frame of mind in which inspiration can come, allowing you to find ways to apply scriptural truths to your life.
John Bytheway
#98. A woman's belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes are the light by which the whole world sees beauty.
Toni Sorenson
#99. There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
William James
#100. Psychoneuroimmunology is concerned specifically with the impact of mental attitudes on the body's resistance to disease, especially exploring the links among and between the mind, the brain and the immune system.
Karol K. Truman
