Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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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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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Plutarch

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

Wright, Steven

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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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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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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 true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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Phillips, Maureen

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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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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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 mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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

Cioran, E. M.

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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Bevan, Aneurin

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Pancoast, Mal