Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Clinton

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

George Crabbe

There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and mine is shot.

All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit.

Edward Tufte

An open mind but not an empty head.

Edward de Bono

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Edward de Bono

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Edward Albee

When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.

Edith Hamilton

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Eckhart Tolle

We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.

Eckhart Tolle

Wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present.

Eckhart Tolle

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Eckhart Tolle

Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now.

Eckhart Tolle

If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.

Eckhart Tolle

Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet

Dan Jenkins

The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Holbrook Jackson

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Hermann von Helmholtz

There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole a kosmos, an image of the logical thought of our own mind.

Joseph Addison

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

Kevin Brooks

I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World... It's a day that never dies.

Kelley Armstrong

Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.

Katy B

I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it.

Khaled Hosseini

The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or two, but it was my intention to step out of the way and let his artistic instincts take over.

Khaled Hosseini

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

Khalil Gibran

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

Jonathan Swift

And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

Jonathan Nolan

I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.

Naomi Wolf

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.