Top 1200 Educated Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.

I'm not an educated woman. What am I gonna do for the rest of my life? I'm an athlete... And now I have absolutely nothing.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

I want to see Colombian youth become the best-educated in Latin America by 2025.

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

There is an incredible power & intelligence witin you that is constantly responding to your thoughts and words. As you learn to control your mind by the conscious choice of thoughts, you align yourself with this power. Do not think that your mind is in control. You are in control of your mind. You use your mind. You can stop thinking those old thoughts.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That`s exactly the meaning of the word `ecstasy`: to stand out. To stand out of the mind makes you ecstatic, brings bliss to you. And great intelligence is released. When you are identified with the mind you cannot be very intelligent because you become identified with an instrument, you become confined by the instrument and its limitations. And you are unlimited - you are consciousness.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Mind alone is the cause of the bondage or freedom of the soul. By the attachment of the mind to the world we become bound; by the devotion of the mind to God presence within as the Soul of every soul, we become free.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely still. If you miss it, you miss the entire thing. If you do not, the silence of the mind will dissolve and absorb all else.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

In choosing not to be a beast, I discovered my humanity. I became autodidactic, self-educated - a critical thinker.

There's this incredibly young, dynamic, educated population in Iran that is essentially pretty pro-American.

A skilled, well-educated workforce will attract more companies and jobs to our state.

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

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive.

We lack an educated, resilient citizenry capable of navigating the increasing complexities of daily life.

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.

As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.

I was kind of reading you know Judy Blume and stuff like that. But yeah, but I've since educated myself.

Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

I've passed on a number of bills. I've studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated...

The Democrat Party and the media, they're just not educated. But they think they are, and they are smug and arrogant about what they don't know.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Being an educated consumer is the best way to shop for nutritious, disease-preventing foods.

Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not. Meditation is the experience: "I am not my body, not my mind - I am the witness of it all." This experience, this transcendental experience, immensely transforms the whole situation. Many things which were driving you crazy simply drop away.

But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta, buddha-consciousness: a mind which functions as a no-mind, a mind which dreams no more, thinks no more, a mind which is just awareness, pure awareness.

Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

...all knowledge exists in the Mind universe of Light - which is God - that all Mind is One Mind, that men do not have separate minds, and that all knowledge can be obtained from the Universal Source of All-Knowledge by becoming One with that Source.

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.