John Stuart Mill Quotes

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind

Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.

The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration.

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.

When the mind is un-agitated, when the mind is calm, that mind is most conducive to creative problem solving.

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life.

My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.

Many people feel unaware of any guidance, unable to discern or understand the signals of God; not because the signals are not given, but because the mind is too troubled, clouded, and hurried to receive them.

What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind

A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga.

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.