134 Mind Reading Quotes

Following is our list of mind reading quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about reading people's mind.

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Famous Mind Reading Quotes

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. - Sarah Orne Jewett

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. — Sarah Orne Jewett

It's all in the mind. — George Harrison

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong. — Agatha Christie

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions — Daniel Kahneman

Read between the lines and free your mind - Immortal Technique

Read between the lines and free your mind — Immortal Technique

It's all about where your mind's at — Kelly Slater

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. - Plato

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. — Plato

As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there. — Epictetus

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work. — Agnes Martin

The camera can photograph thought. — Dirk Bogarde

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. — Francis H. Bradley

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. — F. H. Bradley

We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own. — Derren Brown

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. - Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. — Plato

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Short Mind Reading Quotes

  • The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination. — Carson Mccullers
  • Mind is never a problem. Mindset is. — Narendra Modi
  • You have to think it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible — Kai Greene
  • Mind is everything. What we think, we become. — Buddha
  • Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself. — Plato
  • Thought creates character. — Annie Besant
  • Thinking is the soul talking to itself. — Plato
  • To think is to practice brain chemistry. — Deepak Chopra
  • The human condition: lost in thought. — Eckhart Tolle

Top 10 Mind Reading Quotes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends. — Mas Oyama

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise. — Billy Graham

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. — Virginia Woolf

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. — Joseph Addison

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. — Albert Einstein

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. - Donald Knuth

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. — Donald Knuth

Mind Reading Image Quotes

Mind reading quote There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your ow
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.

Your Mind Reading Quotes

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense. — Warren Buffett

Bitcoin is the most difficult property that the human race possesses or has yet invented to confiscate…I literally have to crack your head open and read your mind to take it…It’s harder to take than every other thing you might own. In fact, it’s exponentially harder. — Michael Saylor

When you are working well with your energy, you are also making the best expression of your personal power... By reading your own energy, by becoming aware of the lens through which you see your world, you can change your mind and change your life. — Caroline Myss

Mind reading quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

David Goggins quote I’d read years back – the idea that when you believe you’ve reached your absolute limit, you’ve only tapped into about 40 percent of what you’re truly capable of. The barrier isn’t the body. It’s the mind. — Rich Roll

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit. — Neil Gaiman

. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233) — Swami Satchidananda

Mind reading quote Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self r
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.

Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts. — Lysa TerKeurst

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be. — Gregg Easterbrook

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. — Joseph Campbell

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. — Frank Zappa

Reading People's Mind Quotes

If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations. — Michelle Obama

I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're going to change a grownup's mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It's also not a textbook. — Bill Nye

I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's great. I'm not one of them. I love tackling roles and I love theater, but filming, I don't get it. It seems mind-numbing to me. — Robert Sean Leonard

Mind reading quote It is when you finally learn that your  are all in your mind that your real life begins.
It is when you finally learn that your are all in your mind that your real life begins.

It's a very different thing when you're able to read something and see it in your mind, then to imagine it on screen. It's emotional transference that you don't have in literature that you have in movies. People invest in the person they see on the screen and they can't shift gears. — Jonathan Mostow

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to be read. I've got the reader in my mind all the time. — Robert Cormier

Use your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires. — Nick Morgan

Mind reading quote Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
Reading is dreaming with open eyes.

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want. — Rick Remender

I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds. — Robert Barry

I really try to think cinematically, because that's how people read. They create a theater in their minds. — Dave Barry

I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends and people I know. I am writing for that small group. They are not necessarily going to be able to read it, but that's what I have in mind when I write. — Bei Dao

Reading My Mind Quotes

My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow. — George R. R. Martin

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it. — Warren G. Harding

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet. — Nat Turner

I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters. — Mary Mcleod Bethune

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about. — Britney Spears

I want a million dollars a year for illegally having my mind read and privacy stolen. — Amanda Bynes

'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'. — Gordon Lightfoot

The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world. — Adeline Yen Mah

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. — Oscar Levant

Reading Is To The Mind What Exercise Is To The Body Quotes

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul. — Matthew Kelly

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. — Sir Richard Steele

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body. — Richard Steele

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch. — Augustus Hare

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. — Joseph Addison

Mind Control Quotes

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. — Malcom X

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. — John Henrik Clarke

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below — Bhagat Singh

Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers. — Benito Mussolini

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. - Jim Morrison

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. — Jim Morrison

There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire. — Andrew Carnegie

What you think you become. — Buddha

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it. — Edward Bernays

Your subconscious never sleeps. It is always on the job. It controls all your vital functions. Forgive yourself and every one else before you go to sleep, and healing will take place much more rapidly. — Joseph Murphy

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. — Lao Tzu

Human Mind Quotes

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. - Thomas Huxley

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. — Thomas Huxley

... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls. — Lev S. Vygotsky

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love. — Henri Nouwen

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence. — Michelle Obama

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. - Aldous Huxley

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. — Aldous Huxley

To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities. — Fred Hollows

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. — Karl Marx

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself. — Morgan Freeman

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. — H. P. Lovecraft

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More Mind Reading Quotes

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention. — Charles R. Swindoll

A Christian way of thinking is not just thinking Christian thoughts, singing Christian songs, reading Christian books, going to Christian schools; it is learning to think about the whole spectrum of life from the perspective of a mind that has been trained in truth. — Alistair Begg

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! — Jim Rohn

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? — Freeman Dyson

Life is like reading a novel or running a marathon. It’s not so much about reaching a goal but rather about the journey itself and the experiences along the way. — Edward O. Thorp

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. — Leo Durocher

Crying purifies and cleanses. I once read about a scientific experiment which demonstrated that there are 38 toxic chemicals in a tear of sadness, while only one toxin exists in a tear of joy. As you cry in sadness, fear, or confusion, you cleanse the body and spirit of toxins which cloud the mind and prevent it from accepting the truth. — Iyanla Vanzant

Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them. — Joan Aiken

I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos, but it also amuse me. That may be because I have nothing specific in mind when I'm working. My intentions are neither feminist nor political. I try to put double or multiple meanings into my photos, which might give rise to a greater variety of interpretations. — Cindy Sherman

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

Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water passes through a pipe, but considering what we read, pondering it over and applying it to our hearts. — George Muller

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page. — Guy Picciotto

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The best founders I know listen to and read everyone, but then they ignore everyone and make up their own mind. — Naval Ravikant

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. — George R. R. Martin

Reading is also linked with higher emotional intelligence, reduced stress, a wider vocabulary, and improved comprehension. — Gautam Baid

Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture. — Theodore Schroeder

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that. — Brian Andreas

There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners. — R. A. Torrey

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. — Christopher Morley

The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. The art of reading between the lines is a lifelong quest of the wise. — Shannon Alder

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show. — George Carlin

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