Motivational Quotes

Mind

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

- Crane, George W.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Buddha

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

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

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

Loos, Anita

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

Kempis, Thomas

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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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 the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Aesop

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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Plutarch

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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 was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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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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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Horace

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Johnson

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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