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

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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

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

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

Plutarch

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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Baba, Meher

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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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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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

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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita

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

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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Allen, James

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Riley, Terry

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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

Churchill, Winston

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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.