Motivational Quotes

Mind

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

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

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

Horace

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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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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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Crane, George W.

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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

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Descartes, Rene

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Sallust

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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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

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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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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Dubay, S.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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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

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Milton, John

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl