Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Brande, Dorothea

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.

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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 mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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

Auden, W. H.

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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 not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Loos, Anita

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

Dubay, S.

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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 incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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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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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Fuller, Buckminster