Mental Understanding Quotes

We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

I love thinking about mechanics and having your mind agree with the mechanics. Sometimes you can shoot it correctly, but your mind doesn't think that it's right. So it's like, how do you get your mind to trust that that's the right way to shoot it.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

When the mind has grasped the matter, words come like flowers at the call of spring.

It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head.