Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Ramakrishna, Sri

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Freud, Sigmund

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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

Jackson, Andrew

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The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

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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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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

Sallust

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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 conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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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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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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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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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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 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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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 mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Steinbeck, John

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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