Top 1200 Clarity Of Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

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

Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify.

The forms are part of the mind, or really are the mind, they're just the contents of this universal night.

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

I learned many things from Professor Brown, including his philosophy toward research, but there is one thing he said that I recall with particular clarity: 'Do research that will be in the textbooks.' It is not easy to do such work, but this has remained my motto.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.

The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind.

As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

I want to be a fighter, this is what I love to do, but it's totally taxing on the body and the mind. Especially the mind.

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open. That’s because the essence of mind is empty. It’s wide open and free

I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news.

If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are perceived as ugly and painful. This mechanism gives rise to those states of mind that we are training ourselves to avoid-- things like greed, lust, hatred, aversion, and jealousy.

Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.

I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it.

When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that are comprehensible, and it's easy to criticize something you can understand.

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

I don't mind genre names. "Chillwave" is probably the last thing I would think of, but I don't mind it.

Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.

What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.

I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.

I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

It is not about mind-watching; but rather recognizing That which watches the mind.

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.

Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.

As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.

Pope John Paul II spoke with a lot of clarity and consistency. But he always spoke with immense compassion. He's the one who said the best way to love somebody is to tell them the truth. So, he did that well.

It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.

Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.