Motivational Quotes

Mind

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Loos, Anita

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Johnson

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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Plutarch

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

Terence

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Dubay, S.

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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Johnson

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

Sperry, Roger

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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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

Wright, Steven

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

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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

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Sarnoff, David