Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough, and I must begin again. I have to.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
I can't imagine anything worse than being just left alone, scared out of your mind.
By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.
I would not mind stepping into movies if it is a good project. If it is changing my career in a good way, then of course I will keep money aside.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.
It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
I'm happy out of my mind. I like beating a lot of people.
Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.
Immigration is the most difficult issue I've ever dealt with, and I've dealt with some tough issues: drones, gays in the military, WikiLeaks, Guantanamo. But immigration is hardest because there are so few people willing to talk and build consensus. Everybody's firmly made up their mind. It's a polarized issue.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me.
When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and exist. I think we should consult the living God for the living word for living people dealing with death, destruction and despair in the midst of our hurt humanity. I believe love will conquer all.
Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.