Quotes and Sayings about Mind & Apprehension

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand.

Pen, paper and books are the gunpowder of the mind.

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head, and you listen to your heart.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

A thousand deaths, and you recover from each. Not so the mind, the mind is much more fragile. Its scars run deep and do not heal. The brain is encased in a hard bone shell, difficult to breach, but with no defense against that which eats at it from within.

They say we only use a fraction of our brain's true potential. Now that's when we're awake. When we're asleep, we can do almost anything.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.

People spend more time talking than thinking.

As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.

Few people think, but many want to rule.

You do your best thinking when you're not thinking at all.

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk sign?

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

I don't pay you to put evil notions in my head. The ones already there don't need company.

Even with therapy, our wounds may take a long time to heal. We can't just erase our worst impulses. But maybe we can control them.

Most of the narcissists are geniuses and masters of Psychology. But they are using their knowledge to eradicate, rather than to help humanity.

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

You just sent the most powerful man in Westeros to bed without his supper.

Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.

Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

If you dream and you believe, you can do it.

My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.