Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

Lardner, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Churchill, Winston

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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

Wright, Steven

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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cousins, Norman

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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace