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

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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

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

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

Lardner, John

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

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Plutarch

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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

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

Loos, Anita

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Wright, Steven

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

Dubay, S.

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

Sarnoff, David

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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

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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Buddha

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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