Motivational Quotes

Mind

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

- Fairfax, Edward

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

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

Dubay, S.

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sallust

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

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

Horace

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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

Crane, George W.

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dickens, Charles

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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 mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Buddha

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Aesop

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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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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl