Top 1200 Educated Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the mind is absolutely impotent in the face of awareness. And because the mind is absolutely impotent, your whole being is in a profound silence - the peace that passeth understanding.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know it is to know it from within, from your witnessing self. The more you become aware, the more you can watch your mind - its subtle functioning. The functioning is tremendously complex and beautiful. Mind is the most complex phenomenon on the earth, the most subtle flowering of consciousness. If you want to really understand what the mind is, then you will have to detach yourself from your mind, and you will have to learn how to be just a witness. That's what meditation is all about.

The fans in the U.K. are so passionate and cool. It doesn't matter what company you work for or which part of the country you're in: everyone is super educated and respectful.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.

There are no a priori obstacles to the scientific knowledge of the mind, but the scientific knowledge of the mind is not all the knowledge of the mind that there is. This is not an objection to science, it is just a distinction between different kinds of knowledge.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

Football is probably the most democratic human activity. It belongs to everyone... to poor and rich, illiterate and educated, to all races, cultures, and nations.

The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'

I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

This year [2016], however, polls show [Hillary] Clinton winning white college-educated voters by double digits.

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.

The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.

To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

I invite you to leverage Serbia because we have talented young professionals who are multilingual, highly educated, and willing to work for competitive wages.

I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.

Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.

The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.

You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way

I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.

It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.

People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.

If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge.

If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.

Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

South Africa now needs skilled and educated people to say 'How do we manage and develop this democratic country?'

As we've come along, we've educated our audience, getting them to understand that brands do not compromise entertainment. For us, they enhance it. They enable it.

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

I feel that it is a social responsibility for us who are better educated to give back some to the society in whatever service we can help.

Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

When I became more aware and educated on the state of youth sports and the inability for so many who want to participate, I knew I wanted to be involved.