Quotes and Sayings about Mind & Apprehension

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Seeing

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Intelligence

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

Johannes Kepler

Seeing Hearing & Listening Ohren

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

Neil Postman

Books Writing

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

Sean Combs

Head

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

William S. Burroughs

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.

David Hockney

Motivation

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

William Ellery Channing

Quality

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

William Gibson

Languages

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Heart

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

John Adams

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.

William Parrish in Meet Joe Black

Heart Love Falling in love

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

Spirit Curiosity

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.

Ravel in Planescape Torment

Grief & Condolence

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.

Cobb in Inception

Brain

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Blaise Pascal

Heart

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

Albert Einstein

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

Kahlil Gibran

Heart Desire

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

Natalie Portman

Intelligence Men & Women Singles & Dating

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

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Failures & Mistakes Intelligence

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

Charles Bukowski

Foolishness Intelligence Self-Confidence Doubt

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

Imagination Intelligence

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Intelligence Gossip & Rumors

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

Hikaru Nakamura

Thinking Chess

People spend more time talking than thinking.

Till Lindemann

Thinking Talking

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.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance

Thinking Intelligence

Few people think, but many want to rule.

Frederick the Great

Thinking

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

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Spirit Death

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

Albert Einstein

Spirit Order

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

Grand Pabbie in Frozen -

Heart Mind vs. Heart Head

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

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 7

Head

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.

Joe Goldberg in You - Season 3 Episode 2

Psychology

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

Psychology

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

Zeus in Hercules

Heart Heros Size

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Heart Seeing Romantic Quotes

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.

Johnny Depp

Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

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

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

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.

Frank Zappa

Character Self-Confidence

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

D. H. Lawrence

Beauty Flowers

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

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Women

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

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10

Bed

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

Johannes Kepler

Science

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

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Talking Hearing & Listening

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

Diogenes Laertios

Talking Hearing & Listening Ohren

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

Neil Postman

Children & Childhood

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

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

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

Sean Combs

Motivation

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

William S. Burroughs

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.

David Hockney

Art

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