- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mind Quotes
What occupies the mind, for better or worse.
Quotes about the "mind" here range widely — a lifelong search for hidden meaning sits alongside a startlingly honest admission that resentment has occupied more mental space than friendship ever did. For related reflection, see Body quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Exhilarating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.
- Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Would I mind if someone wrote a sequel to one of my books?' I asked myself, and I decided that I wouldn't, providing that the writer was respectful, had read my book first, and wasn't drunk when doing it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with my mind is it sways from side to side. The idea of me fantasizing about becoming an actor quickly led to depression. 'No, it was never going to happen to me.' I was a sixteen-year-old kid on the other side of the world from where they made movies. Scottish actors never really got play. There was Sean Connery, and that was it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind it when people come up to me and say, 'Well done.' That's lovely. The bit that's weird is stuff like... I've had a load of eBay people hounding me. Just sort of getting you to sign stuff which they can then sell.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
- Safe
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- Nov 07, 2020
For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
- Developments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020