6,568 Quotes About Mind

Ask not where limits are.They are a quality of the mind.

Nothing is so productive of greatness of mind as the ability to examine systematically and truthfully each thing we encounter in life, and to see these things in such a way as to comprehend the nature of the Cosmos.

The perils of being a genius, I guess. Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity.

Amanda squinted in the wind, then reflexively turned her mind as if it were a physical thing she could grab and point in another direction.

If you can figure out how their minds function, you can defeat anything or anyone! Enter a storm's mind, then you can defeat it; enter the mind of a dictator, then you can defeat him!

Mind is not in the brain; brain is in the mind. And you are that mind.

All this fretting about the spirits. I'm trying to teach you about the mind. An infinite world that's been neglected by far too many explorers.

It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once - to have one's feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress. It was what I had done as a kid on Euclid Avenue, what my family - and marginalized people more generally - had always done. You get somewhere by building that better reality, if at first only in your own mind. Or as Barack had put it that night, you may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.

The soul is always wiser than the mind, even though we are dependent on the mind to read the soul for us.