Mental Perception Quotes

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand, until you can love the thoughts that appear in your mind, then you can love the rest of us. You work with the projector -the mind - not the projected world. I can't really love you until I question the mind that thinks it sees you outside itself . . .

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

It's all in the mind.

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.

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.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.