Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

James Russell Lowell

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

James Redfield

If we make sure we stay in a state of conscious alertness for the next synchronicity, our minds stay on the positive and off our fear and doubt.

James Grant

Credit is money of the mind.

Laurence Sterne

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

Lamar Odom

If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

George Gissing

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

George Gilder

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Jon Krakauer

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.

Jon Glaser

I don't mind not having recognition. If it happens, fine, but it doesn't bother me that it's not there.

Lynn Shelton

I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more.

Luis Bunuel

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

Luc de Clapiers

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Luc de Clapiers

It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.

Louis Pasteur

Chance favours a prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Chance favours the trained mind.

Louis Pasteur

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

Louis Pasteur

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

Lord Byron

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!