Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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.

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

Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

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

Steinbeck, John

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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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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

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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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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 ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.