Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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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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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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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Dubay, S.

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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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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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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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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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

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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

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry