Top 1200 Educated Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I'm your typical highly educated, progressive white dude. I've lived my life resisting racism both within myself and in the society around me.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.

According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.

My particular pain is that the world of Jewishness that I identify with - the extremely assimilated, educated European and Russian Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries - is lost, and is not mourned enough.

Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

Mind is a duality; it is always split. There is no single point on which the mind agrees in totality. Half of the mind will agree and half of the mind will disagree, and whatever you choose, you are choosing only the half. The remaining half is going to take revenge. The unchosen part, the left over, will wait for its chance to show you that whatever you have chosen is wrong. But it does not matter which part you choose. Choice itself is wrong.

You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.

The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied the apex of essay writing.

Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.

I am completely of the school that mind is entirely the manifestation of brain. So when there's a change in mind, there's got to be a neurobiological underpinning.

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If you are not disillusioned by dust, you will not be able to know what truth is. A man obsessed with ambition is not capable of knowing truth at all. Eyes full of ambition never see what is; they only see what they want to see. The ambitious mind is the wrong mind; the non-ambitious mind is the right mind.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

If you can attract highly educated people from other parts of the country and keep your own best and brightest, chances are the job creators are going to be successful.

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.

Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

I wish I knew in terms of more educated in food when I was younger. Because the importance of it not just in sport but in life too has helped me and I think it'll continue.

I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

I had been educated with free scholarships. I went to nine different universities, always at public expense, and when you have that experience, you are almost obligated to give it back. It's as simple as that.

Mormons are an extraordinarily educated and professional population. They have all these virtues: They work hard, don't skip school, have no scandals. Consequently, you find them in a lot of consequential places.

Parents tend to value their lives more highly than people without kids, but they're different in lots of ways: They're richer. They're better educated. They're healthier.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.

My mind... It's who I am. I think I'd rather suffer any other injury in the world than have my mind tampered with.

Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.

Every child is entitled to an academic education. But resilience, stickability, self-esteem - they need these things, too, and even more than the privately educated.

I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air.

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

In China or in the U.S., the government program takes over promising sporting talent at a very early age and then financially secures their life. They get educated.

Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.

I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.