Mental Insight Quotes

some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

I am often able to hear what people are thinking.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.

Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

I would love to be able to read minds. How cool would it be to get inside peoples' heads and figure out what they're thinking? I guess that's a good and a bad thing.

I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.

I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

If you think of data as kind of an x-ray of our soul, it's this window into our minds that the company has possessed. It's a very, very powerful x-ray for them to hold because the more that you understand about somebody, the easier it is to manipulate them.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

Therapy was incredibly enlightening. I don't think it's only necessary if you're unwell - it's a useful tool for me to understand my own mind and how it works.