A Quote by Robert Bolt

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Robert Bolt

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Belief Idea Merely Mind Possesses

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Robert Bolt
British - Playwright
August 15, 1924 - February 21, 1995

Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.

Abraham Verghese

The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.

Cecilia Dart-Thornton

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

Bernard Beckett

Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses.

Elijah Muhammad

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

Robert Henri

All the worth which the human being possesses all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State... For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of History in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

Seneca the Younger

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

Joseph Pilates

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.

Cameron Diaz

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.

Enid Blyton

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.