Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Piper

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

Mark Teixeira

I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.

Mark Noll

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

Mark Pagel

[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.

Nicole Kidman

I don't mind being naked.

Nick Harkaway

Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth!

Nick Kroll

There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

Nalo Hopkinson

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

Mortimer Adler

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Mischa Barton

I don't mind nudity; I just don't do it often.

Philip Sidney

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

Philip Sidney

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

Philip Sidney

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

Philip Sidney

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit.

Edward Tufte

An open mind but not an empty head.

Edward de Bono

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Edward de Bono

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Edward Albee

When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.

Edith Hamilton

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Eckhart Tolle

We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.

Eckhart Tolle

Wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present.

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.

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.