Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stevens

It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.

Samuel Richardson

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Samuel Richardson

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Samuel Beckett

That penny farthing hell you call your mind

Sammy Sosa

Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone, and when you do that, you're not going to get a chance to hit strikes. It makes it easier for the pitcher every time I do that.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A great mind must be androgynous.

Samuel Beckett

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

Salvador Dali

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

Rudolf Otto

The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that allures with a potent charm, and the creature, who trembles before it, utterly cowed and cast down, has always at the same time the impulse to turn to it, nay even to make it somehow his own.

Rudy Rucker

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

Wendy Palmer

You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened

Wangari Maathai

You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.

Julian Barnes

When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.

Jostein Gaarder

Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.

Joss Whedon

It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.

Konrad Adenauer

God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.

Kofi Annan

We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat.

Kevin Kelly

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

Ramakrishna

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

Ramana Maharshi

If one watches whence the notion 'I' arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas.

Ramana Maharshi

To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.

Ramana Maharshi

In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.

Ramana Maharshi

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.

Ramana Maharshi

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

Ramana Maharshi

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

Ramana Maharshi

There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.