Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Loos, Anita

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Pancoast, Mal

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Sarnoff, David

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Steinbeck, John

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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 closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Wright, Steven

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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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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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 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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Dubay, S.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.