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 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

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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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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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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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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

30.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

31.

How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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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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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'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

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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Aesop

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

Nightingale, Earl

42.

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

Milton, 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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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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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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