Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Mind

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

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

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Terence

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

Wright, Steven

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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 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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Dubay, S.

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

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

Milton, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Johnson

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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

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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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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

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

Brande, Dorothea