Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Mind

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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

Pancoast, Mal

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Plutarch

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

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Steinbeck, John

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Sarnoff, David

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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 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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Sallust

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

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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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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

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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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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Wilson, Colin

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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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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