Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Mind

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Johnson

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Loos, Anita

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Horace

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

Sarnoff, David

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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

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Terence

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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Ferguson, Marilyn

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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Wilson, Colin