mind

"Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?"

"Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you."

"Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?"

"In class society, everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class."

"Under norms of rationality, organizations seek to seal off their core technologies from environmental influences."

"I'm really very happy if people can connect at all to anything I do. I don't really mind if people mishear lyrics or misunderstand what the story is. I think that's what you have to let go of when you…"

"Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds."

"There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form; but if the scholar can get at only o…"

"Islam is the first school of social thought that recognizes the masses as the basis, the fundamental and conscious factor in determining history and society not the elect as Nietzsche thought, not the…"

"When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of "symbolic images." The first step to thinking is a painted vision of these inner pictures whose origin can…"

"It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it."

"Do we really think that the United States will have the protection of innocent Afghans in mind if it rains terror down on the Afghan infrastructure? We are supposedly fighting them because they immora…"

"Thought is born of failure. When action satisfies there is no residue to hold the attention; to think is to confess a lack of adjustment which we must stop to consider. Only when the human organism fa…"

"We now understand that every mental state and every mental disorder is a disorder of brain function. Treatments work by altering the structure and function of the brain."

"When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters. When a thoughtful and unble…"

"A second class mind, but a first class temperament."

"Could it be, he wondered, he’d only thought he’d seen what he’d seen because of his own desires, researches, expectations?"

"The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connec…"

"No thought, no reflection, no analysis, No cultivation, no intention; Let it settle itself."

"The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; …"