Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 55

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters
 Francisco Goya
It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use] ... instincts as a criteria.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.
 Ashleigh Brilliant
Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.
Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.
The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
 Heraclitus
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
 Daniel Goleman
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
 Iris Murdoch
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.
Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.
 Brian Greene
Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.
 James G. Frazer
No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.
 Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres
In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.
I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.
 Emma Stone
You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.