Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Charles Spurgeon

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Charles Spurgeon

Mind your till, and till your mind.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

Alan Watts

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

Alan Watts

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

Alan Watts

Society is our extended mind and body.

Alan Watts

There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

Alan Watts

The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

Alan Watts

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

Alan Watts

We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.

Alan Watts

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

Alan Rickman

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

Alan Moore

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

Alan Moore

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

Alan Moore

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind

Al Ries

Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect. That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

Positioning is not what you do to a product. Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.

Akhenaton

A contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

Chris Cleave

To be well in your mind you have first to be free.

Chogyam Trungpa

Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

Chogyam Trungpa

This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.

Chino Moreno

Deja vu is one of the weirdest things that happens to me. It boggles my mind.