Mind Quotes

“The lid, however, wouldn't shut. The mind held back the whole sky.”
― Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

“Our inability to understand our own minds is the price we pay for the ability to question it in the first place.”
― Helen Thomson, Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own

“Back in that first lesson with Clive, I was told by my professor that 'If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.”
― Helen Thomson, Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own

“As long as the sun does not set in your mind, darkness will be nothing but a weak shadow in your life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Men, perhaps, might nourish both heart and mind, but for a woman there could be no such luxury... How readily the rules of female behavior--gentleness, acquiescence, ever-mindfulness--turn to shackles.

So, she thought, there must be declared a new kind of virtue: one that made the throwing off of such rules, and even such deceit as this required, praiseworthy.”
― Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

“When the rest of the mind has fled, sometimes there’s music left.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“If you had been born in a civilization in which the rising sun was called 'my sun,' you would consider it your sun.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“A weak mind is a malleable one. Once it is convinced it has been lied to, it begins to lie to itself. Once persuaded that it is hated, it becomes hateful. Once made to fear violence, it becomes violent.”
― J. Zachary Pike, Son of a Liche

“Staying on the kinder side of a situation even in our minds is a much calmer place.”
― Ron Baratono

“People��s goodness or badness exists within not them but our minds.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Whether we are becoming more anxious or more loving, everything takes practice, and everything starts with one thought.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset

“The world we are trying to transcend is not the physical world of air, sunlight, and ocean. After all, that world, even with all of its problems, is an amazingly beautiful world. Our problem is with the world that mind has constructed. Can we see that there is a mental world that we have created somewhere in our consciousness? It is a mind-created world that we have been living in forever. When we open our eyes, we see the outer world. We can walk outside near the ocean for just ten or twenty minutes and we see a beautiful world with sand, rocks, waves; the ocean is singing a song. It is a beautiful world. There is nothing wrong with that world. It is perfect, sacred in itself.

The world that we must transcend is the world that mind has constructed. That world has lots of problems, lots of drama, lots of stories, and lots of suffering. It's a forever spinning wheel of painfulness, agony, and so forth.”
― Anam Thubten, The Magic of Awareness

“Given the scientific investigation, the only causal machine in human existence, in the ultimate end, is the brain, which seems to be mainly out of control: The sensation, perception and imagination of the external world are automatically determined by the interpretation of input signals receiving through sense organs; making a choice and decision are automatically realized on the base of this interpretation, which, In later period, regulate the behavior patterns in a social environment. The only causal and interpretation machine, as described above, the brain is thought to be automatically shaped by various external factors, such as genetic programming that determines the design of a brain – various proportions among the various circuits in such a way that if your brain devotes more space for aggression and anxiety centre, for example, then it is very high probability that you are a ‘wild beast’ inside. As you cannot pick out your brain when you are born, because at least the genetic inheritance is out of your control, it is nearly impossible for you to avoid the very fact that your internal world is so. Maybe, your inner wildness doesn’t reveal itself in the everyday world, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have conscious control over it. Because of being hidden mainly in your unconsciousness, even your conscious mind can be unaware of the very fact of its existence. From scientific perspective, it can be stated, in this case, that the censor system of your brain is quite active to make sufficiently well-considered selection among desires that unintentionally emerge in aggression and anxiety circuits, and to hide most of them, which involve an extreme violence and destruction, in hidden consciousness in order to protect the ‘perfect’ image of your personality in social system, or simply to avoid to be punished on the grounds of these implausible, unfavorable desires in that system. If this is so, where is your freedom – free choice? Doesn’t it seem that the naked truth is that your brain, instead of you, makes a choice, decides, controls, regulates of almost everything in your life, leaving for you a room for being just a ‘perfect’ bio-social robot that lives in his or her illusion of free will?”
― Elmar Hussein

“The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.”
― Rita Levi-Montalcini

“I tried to think these thoughts but they remained intolerably abstract, while a pain in my body told me what was real.”
― Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

“Sorry for being stuck in the traffic
of my mind's stressful road
The world seems very pornographic
I can’t carry the load”
― Munia Khan

“Sometimes I get mind screw up… but in the end… I need to find a way… THAT'S LIFE!”
― Deyth Banger

“When we have reached the outposts of the mind, we are ready for the journey to the heart.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.”
― Phaedrus

“The cognitive system of the brain is based on the functional operation of several sub-systems. If there is relatively perfect accordance among them, then the mind can reach the harmony and clarity. Each sub-system in mind has got its start point – presuppositions, the deep content of which is hidden in unconsciousness, but in most cases, if not all, actively affects the whole process of rational thinking. You can be aware of mostly its consequences, and you can intuitively sense whether these consequences are logical and clear, or illogical and vague. If the latter is the case, it means that the presuppositions of the sub-systems in mind are incompatible, which in turn influences the functions of whole sub-systems and conclusions that the sub-systems draw as the consequence of these functional operations. Ultimately, the mind would suffer from inevitable disagreement and disharmony, which in turn would constantly keep the mental state under stress. (The Denotation and Connotation of the concept of God)”
― Elmar Hussein

“We blame heart for the misdeeds our mind plotted”
― Mustafa Khan

“Cancer is never a lethal disease
If your strength of mind wants it to freeze
Death will arrive, but it loves to wait
When living in hope is never too late”
― Munia Khan

“The mind was only an apparatus within the mechanism of the body--and it took little more than a fever to jostle a cog, so that the gear of thought could no longer turn. Philosophy could be severed from life. Blood overmastered ink. And every thin breath she drew told her which ruled her.”
― Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

“Buried deep within each of us is a question we’ve come to understand. The truth is we’re just not strong enough to act on it right now, but understanding what the question is that’s half the battle. Living without denial allows for freedom of the heart and mind.”
― Ron Baratono

“In the back of your hypnotic mind
Hidden behind your fears
Lost between your dreams
…

Bewitched by the scent of your soul
Lured in the ash of your fate
…

Hanged in the delirium of your whispers
Graced by your immortal beauty within
…

Agonized in your chaotic universe
Vanished in your far away sights
…

Deceived in your fanatical passion
Injured by the perfection of your brain
…

Denuded of fears in front of your judging
Kidnapped by your timeless appearance...to the end of love

(fragments from I'll be there, chapter Passion)”
― Claudia Pavel, The odyssey of my lost thoughts

“According to your mind you may consider yourself as real but may be you are just an unreachable dream in someone else’s mind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If the reflection is beautiful, we can be sure that the reflected is beautiful! If someone’s character is beautiful, we can be sure that his mind is beautiful!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“He felt your eyes reading these words on this page, trying to fathom out his story. He knew deep down that only he could live his story, not you. Your eyes looking into his dream have their own story. Your story that only you can truly experience because it’s seen with your eyes and told with your voice.”
― Jacqueline Edgington, Happy Jack

“The most dangerous mind is always hidden under a sincere smile.”
― Elmar Hussein

“I conquer my existence to find you
By defeating my mind to remind you
That my lonely life’s pledge is to bind you
With my blue heart tightly tied behind you
To follow, to embrace and to give you
All my love, pain, desire just to heave you

From the poem: Pledge”
― Munia Khan, To Evince the Blue