Motivational Quotes

Mind

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Mind

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.

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

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

For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Churchill, Winston

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson

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

Dubay, S.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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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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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Horace

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Milton, John

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

Crane, George W.

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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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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 not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Aesop

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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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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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Sperry, Roger

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

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Johnson

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

Hill, Napoleon