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" Quotes and Sayings About the mind

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
Currently Direction Dominant Mind
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Ability Broaden Investigate Life
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Death Desires Flesh Hard
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Traveling Expands Mind Rarely
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
Mind Advance Foresee Own
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Happiness Beneficial Grief Develops
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It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Grief Develops Power Mind
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Mind Distracted Sorts Heart
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
True Enjoyment Activity Mind
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Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

Bodies Liberate Men Minds
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They have messed with the minds of Africans...

Messed Minds
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The spirit is life. The mind is the builder. The physical is the result.
Spirit Life Mind Builder
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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

All-Around Around Ask Capable
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Beauty Body Books Bringing
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When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Body Different Different Way Get
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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

Cruel Heart Song Reading-eyes
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Fantasy is what the world desires. It appeals to the mind. Truth is, as good as it might be and soothing. Reality is what we need in the world today.

Fantasy World-desires Mind Truth
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Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

Geometry Enlightens Intellect Set
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Executives Scientist Business school Believe
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I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

Living Hope Mind Received
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It is not the bruises on the body that hurt; It is the scars on the mind.

Bruises Body Hurt Scars
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The mindset of wanting to learn and choosing to learn will always enrich your lives. We can’t assume we know everything because when we stop learning we stop living.

Mindset Wanting Choosing Learn
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But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests.

Mind Long directed Rigid Unable
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Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

First FirstThing FirstTime Go
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From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

Believe Believe In Yourself Create Experience
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Beautiful Does Extravagance Lead
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We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

Works Mind Failures Experts
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Habit Friction Mind Gliding over
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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

Own Dependency Ideas Reason
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Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Librarian Service Occupation Attendant
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The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too.

Earth Eye Reaches Mind
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To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.

Education Sink deep Minds Generation
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Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today.
Preventing Conflicts Changing Mind set
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Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
Construct Constructs Contain Mind
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The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.

Possible metaphor Conceive Life Mind
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Gains Itself Lean Learns
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Enter Ever Fire Ideas
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Nigeria will NEVER be a FAILED nation…Yes, we are not getting it right but with the mindset of prosperity, NIGERIANS will get there!!!

Never Failed nation Right Mindset
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There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Few Matters Minds One Thing
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Comprehend Eye Mind Only
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Absence Alternatives Mind
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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Anything Courage Greatest Honor
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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

Temperate zone Mind Luxurious indolence Work
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Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Freedom conceives Mind Spirit Own life
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Bondage Enterprise Every Mind
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Against Always Been Democracy
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Life wears down the edges of the mind.

Life wears Edges Mind
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The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

Chief philosophical Value Physics Mind
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Every time, the mindset I get when I get on the floor is that I'm the best player on the floor.

Every time Mindset Floor Best player
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One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

Only see One observes Mind
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