Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

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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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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Sallust

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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 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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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 mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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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 mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn