Motivational Quotes

Mind

Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Mind

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin