Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Dickens, Charles

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

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Dubay, S.

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

Daniel, Peter

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Milton, John

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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

10.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

11.

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

12.

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

Smith, Adam

13.

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

Sperry, Roger

14.

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

16.

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

17.

This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

18.

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

Hare, David

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Pancoast, Mal

21.

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

Descartes, Rene

22.

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

23.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

26.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Dickens, Charles

30.

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

Auden, W. H.

31.

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

Johnson

32.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

36.

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

Horace

37.

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

38.

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

39.

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

40.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

41.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

44.

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

45.

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

46.

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

Riley, Terry

47.

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

Aesop

48.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

49.

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