Mind

I didn't mind people staring at the long scratches made by the stern thorns of the boor-geresy bush. I was just happy to be on my way again after my time in Erewhon.

Off the Flight Path: Adventures in Erewhon, Tasmania and Kerguelen – Eta Sonnok, 1967

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

(P. B. Medawar)

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James

The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

(H. P. Lovecraft)

Too much work to do! It's enough to boggle the mind!!

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

(Malcolm Forbes)

I think empty would be the opposite of mind.

My veiw of mind is that it is an odd word to be given such differing meanings. As a young girl I was amazed when my granny would say to me, »Now mind you not to spill that juice since if you spill it you will have a stain on your waist and everyone will wonder where your mind could have been.« She was, of course, most worried about the garment that she referred to as my waist since it was hand-made by herself and was made of lovely silk which I very much liked even if I did call it a blouse.

A mind is a kind of semi-transparent bluish-white rectangle with rounded edges. It is also very nearly non-existent.

Most of the time the human mind runs on autopilot.
You cannot decide what you think and feel, it just happens. Try not to think of anything for 3 minutes.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

(Herman Hesse)

Myths that compartmentalize our minds by defining certain mental attributes as »male« and others as »female« leave us all functioning with only part of our minds. Though there may well be some innate biological differences between the sexes, there is hardly room for doubt that our preconceptions serve to exaggerate and rigidify any distinctions that might exist. These preconceptions operate as straitjackets for men and women alike. I believe that the best, most creative science, like the most creative human efforts of any kind, can only be achieved with a full, unhampered mind – if you like, an androgynous mind. Therefore, the giving up of the central myth that science is a product of male thought may well lead to a more creative, more imaginative, and, who knows, possibly even a more humanistic science.