Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eckhart Tolle

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Eckhart Tolle

Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now.

Eckhart Tolle

If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.

Eckhart Tolle

Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet

Dan Jenkins

The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Holbrook Jackson

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Hermann von Helmholtz

There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole a kosmos, an image of the logical thought of our own mind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Henri Poincare

. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Henri Poincare

Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This leads immediately in his mind to the prediction of new phenomena which may one day be verified by experiment.

Henri Poincare

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

Henrik Ibsen

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

Hesiod

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

Henry Ford

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

Henry Ford

Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.

Henry Ford

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .

Helen Oyeyemi

I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.

Hilary Duff

I feel like women's minds never stop.

Henry Winkler

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Henry Ward Beecher

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

Henry Ward Beecher

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

Henry Fielding

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.

Henry Fielding

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

Henry Fielding

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

Henry Fielding

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.