Top 1200 Educated Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

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.

The fact is that when you are in a clean, clear state of mind you will be free to pay full attention to what you are doing and you will therefore naturally do it well. Problems come when you are not living in a natural state of mind. Then, no matter what you are doing your mind will be on something else.

I'm a great fan of Bloomingdale's, and I'm a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what they do, what they've done, is amazing. They've educated some of the best American designers.

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

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters

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

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

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

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

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.

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

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

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

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

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

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

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

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

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help #? LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.

Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers.

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

We don't live in a primitive society any more. Many of us are lucky enough to be educated. We also realize that gender and sexuality is a spectrum.

No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances.

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or not. There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty. When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there. There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.

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.

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.

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

We might think we can find a buddha or enlightenment somewhere beyond this mind; we might think we can find serenity, clarity, and meaning beyond this mind, but such place does not exist. Everything that appears is this mind, Bodhidharma says.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing, and beautiful women.

I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be.

To people like me, educated in post-war Britain, free speech has been a firm premise of the British way of life.

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.

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

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

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

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

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

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

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.

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

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Decent education in INdonesia is strictly for the elites, and those who are educated are using their knowledge to extract even more from the country, and not to improve it as a whole.

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

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.

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