Mind Quotes

"The mind moves in the direction of our current dominant thoughts" "Fear is the mind-killer, fear is the little" "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." "The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are principally these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which way it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence. This is called abstraction and thus all its general ideas are made." "The mind is a powerful instrument. Every thought, every emotion that you create changes the very chemistry of your body." "The mind is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is not about memorizing facts, but about exploring, questioning, and discovering. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to be happy."