Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 38

The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.
The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.
 Leonid Andreyev
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh.
 Aphex Twin
How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
 Robin Hobb
We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.
 Lewis Terman
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
 Roland Joffe
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.
 John Hume
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
 Johan Huizinga
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.
I always have my setlist planned out, but the best moments are when the energy of the crowd just gets your mind working and you are able to come up with new tags for jokes and just riff off things in the room.
 Aziz Ansari
I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.
 John Masefield
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.
 Pam Brown
The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society
 Irving Howe
Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.
Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
 Isocrates