Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Brown

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

Dan Brown

Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

David Foster Wallace

Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses - places where statements that seem to obey all the language's rules are nevertheless impossible to deal with.

Dashiell Hammett

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

David Simon

How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions of what is sacred and what is profane. When we assume the mind-set that everything is ultimately divine, though sometimes more disguised than others, then we can see that all of our thoughts, impulses, and desires arise from and can bring us back to awareness of the sacred.

David Chalmers

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

Curt Schilling

In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do.

Corey Taylor

The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

Confucius

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.

Confucius

If my mind is not engaged in my worship, it is as though I worshipped not.

Daniel Webster

Mind is the great lever of all things.

Andre Norton

There is no cure for narrowness of mind ...

Andre Maurois

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

Andre Maurois

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Ambrose Bierce

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

Ambrose Bierce

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

Ambrose Bierce

COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

Ambrose Bierce

MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .

Ambrose Bierce

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Alison Bechdel

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Alice Thomas Ellis

I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.

Alice Hoffman

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

Anne Lamott

and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear...

Anne Lamott

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Anne Lamott

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

Anne Lamott

When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.

Anna Camp

In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.

Albert Bandura

Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other

Albert Finney

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.

Albert Brooks

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

Albert Brooks

I'm a big consumer of news and I have my six newspaper sites booked. And what I like bout Twitter is it's almost, it allows me to make a comment about something that's just on my mind.

Annie Dillard

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

Annie Dillard

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.