Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Mind

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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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 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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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Loos, Anita

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Sallust

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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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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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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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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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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne