Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Wright, Steven

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

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Loos, Anita

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Auden, W. H.

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Hamilton, Edith

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Buddha

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

Plutarch

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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 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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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 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