Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

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

Steinbeck, John

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

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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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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

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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.

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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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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 is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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 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

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

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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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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 mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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