Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Mind

If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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

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

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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Sperry, Roger

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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

Crane, George W.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aesop

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Loos, Anita

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

Hare, David

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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

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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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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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sarnoff, David

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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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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