T Quotes
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“The mind knows...that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that restricts our world's path to points that tell an internally consistent story.”
Source: Anathem
“The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts, and the majority of people, little accustomed to think, has little of it.”
Source: New Essays on Human Understanding
“The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.”
Source: A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism
“The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“The mind, left unguarded, becomes a quiet adversary; through watchfulness, it learns to serve, not to rule.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.”
“The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science.”
“The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in frustration, because every expectation is the beginning of frustration. Why does every desire end in frustration? There are only two alternatives: either you achieve your object of desire or you don`t achieve it, but in both cases it will end in tears. If you achieve it you will see the utter futility of it all.”
“The mind longs for what it has missed.”
“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”
“The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".”
“The mind makes no mistakes, when used properly.
If there is a (perceived) threat, our minds shift priority into dealing with it. Thus, students who are unable to feel at ease in their classrooms will have to cope with having a very limited brain capacity.
The mind should be warm for its purpose. Oil the pathways, maintain them regularly when they are to be used.”
“The mind makes stereotypes, because the mind wants to survive. Conquer those stereotypes and you'll start to live, not as animal but as human.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.”
“The mind map will change your life.”
“The mind matter, therefore, meditate.”
“The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.”
Source: True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
“The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.”
“The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.”
Source: The Art of Travel
“The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.”
“The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.”
“The Mind may relish the companionship of bloated self-pride - but the Soul, will not.”
Source: The Soul Whisperer : A Trilogy of Soul Awakening, Revelations & Insights
“The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.”
Source: Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma
“The mind messes up more shots than the body.”
Source: How to keep your temper on the golf course
“The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.”
“The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.”
Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01
“The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“The mind must be an open door to empty space.”
“The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.”
“The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.”
Source: How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
“The mind must be enlarged to see the simple things — or even to see the self-evident things.”
Source: The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic & The Everlasting Man
“The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of being that stretches out endlessly in every direction forever.”
“The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.”
Source: Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future
“The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.”
“The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and
vigorous nutriment.”
Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal
“the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.”
Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)
“The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.”
Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
“The mind needs its break too. Meditate to rejuvenate your thinking capacity.”
“The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities”
Source: The World Is Made of Stories
“The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.”
“The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.”
“The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.”
Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table
“The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.”
“The mind of a drunken fool is a useless tool.”
“The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.”
“The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.”
Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose
“The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.”
Source: The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913
“The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
“The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.”
Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“The mind of a man is his masterpiece.”