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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Dubay, S.

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

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

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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Steinbeck, John

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wright, Steven

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

Fairfax, Edward

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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 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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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Loos, Anita

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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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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Highet, Gilbert

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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