Top 1200 Educated Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own.

Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.

The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

Peace of mind is the basis of a healthy body and a healthy mind; so peace of mind, a calm mind, is very, very important.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in a philosophic sense is to look between the two great extremes: the idealist philosophy that says mind and consciousness is the only thing and that matter is simply an illusion, or a Maya, the product of mind; and the other extreme, a strict materialist determinism, which says that mind and consciousness is a secondary phenomenon of the collision of matter.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.

I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense out of experience, to reduce the conglomerates of experience to units of comprehension which we call principles, or ideologies, or concepts. Religious experience is dynamic, fluid, effervescent, yeasty. But the mind can't handle these so it has to imprison religious experience in some way, get it bottled up. Then, when the experience quiets down, the mind draws a bead on it and extracts concepts, notions, dogmas, so that religious experience can make sense to the mind.

Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

Your mind is like a servant to you. Whatever you are being in the midst of your mind, your mind is going to be the same to you.

The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it's not theoretical; it's not even partisan.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.

Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.

It is not about how much money you make. The question is are you educated enough to KEEP it.

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

As an artist, sometimes you'd rather not do the interview. You might feel the interviewer isn't educated on you... or what you're about.

Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.

Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

Do not lose your independent mind, unconditioned mind. You have by nature a very powerful mind. You can find everything for yourself; you can know everything for yourself.

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

I can possibly say I have entertained and educated more people than anyone else in the world.

The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone.

Everybody in my family is very well educated. I'm probably the only one who is not a double post graduate.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated

I have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that are heroes. Gandhi, Jesus, Moses, Martin Luther King they were all secret heroes in my mind because they stood for what they wanted, what they believed in.

If you're not educated to enjoy the arts, if you're not taken to a concert, or you don't hear something beautiful, you don't know what you're missing.

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we wish to say how we want our children to be educated, we must say without hesitation: We want them to be educated in Che’s spirit! If we want the model of a man, who does not belong to our times but to the future, I say from the depths of my heart that such a model, without a single stain on his conduct, without a single stain on his action, is Che!

I'm a hate figure for a certain kind of half-educated politically correct person.

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated.

I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

I was home educated but would skip my lessons to go hang out at school.

We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.