Quotes with mind-numbing

Quotes 901 till 920 of 1233.

• The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

  E. M. Cioran
  French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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• The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

  The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

  Bodhidharma
  semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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• The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.

  Stone Junction (2004) 348

  Jim Dodge
  American novelist and poet (1945 - )
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• The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

  Rene Magritte
   
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• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

  Earl Nightingale
  American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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• The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

  Mack R. Douglas
  American author
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• The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

  Joseph Conrad
  In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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• The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet (1807 - 1882)
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• The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.

  Phaedrus

  Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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• The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

  William Wordsworth
  English poet (1770 - 1850)
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• The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

  Joseph Joubert
  French writer (1754 - 1824)
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• The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

  Adrienne Rich
  American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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• The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

  Norman Vincent Peale
  American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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• The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

  Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• well-informed
• intelligence
• constantly
• thoroughly
• stimulates
• sometimes

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