Top 1200 Educated Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Never try to stop the thoughts. If you try to stop the thoughts they will become bigger and greater and they will win. Because the mind appears to be very powerful. Yet in reality the mind does not exist. There is no mind. There is no such thing as a mind. So when you sit in the silence you observe, you watch, you become the witness.

There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

I was one of the good-looking, educated actors, and that is like a disadvantage in theatre!

I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind. This is the direct path for all. The mind is merely thoughts. Of all thoughts the thought "I" is the root.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and the mind out of the mind.

I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience.

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.

There is a common misunderstanding that during meditation the mind should never engage in processing thoughts. It is okay in meditation for the mind to move into many different directions, while at the same time attempting to return to a centered, relaxed state of mind.

I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand, until you can love the thoughts that appear in your mind, then you can love the rest of us. You work with the projector -the mind - not the projected world. I can't really love you until I question the mind that thinks it sees you outside itself . . .

I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline ? combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

A well-educated populace is the backbone of our middle-class.

Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

In Kerala, people are more educated, so you can have subtlety in Malayalam films.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we are all mind. Every drop has the whole of the ocean in it. That is the mind of man. The Indian mind reflects upon these [powers and potentialities] and wants to bring [them] all out. For himself he doesn't care what happens. It will take a great length of time [to reach perfection]. If it takes fifty thousand years, what of that!

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

If you become capable of relaxing the body voluntarily, then you will be able to help your mind relax voluntarily. Mind is a more complex phenomenon. Once you have become confident that the body listens to you, you will have a new trust in yourself. Now even the mind can listen to you. It will take a little longer with the mind, but it happens.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

I can fool you because you're a human. You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we're fooled, the mind hasn't made a mistake. It's come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

We want the police to be young, educated, and have a completely different outlook.

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.