Edmund Burke Quotes

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

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

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

It's important to determine not just the quality of your mind but the fullness of your heart.

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of understanding the subtle workings of the mind. As you understand those workings of the mind a great awareness arises in you, which is not of the mind. That awareness arises in your being, in your soul, in your consciousness.

Nothing is confused except the mind.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.