Motivational Quotes

Mind

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about 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

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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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

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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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

Jackson, Andrew

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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Sallust

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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 mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Steinbeck, John

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Horace

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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