Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Aesop

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

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Milton, John

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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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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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Dubay, S.

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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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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

Sallust

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Smith, Adam

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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