Carol P. Christ Quotes

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

One of the difficulties of politics is that politicians are shocked by those who are really prepared to let their thinking reach any conclusion. Political thinking consists in deciding upon the conclusion first and then finding good arguments for it. An open mind is considered irresponsible- and perhaps it really is.

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.