Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

- Wilson, Colin

Best Quotes about Mind

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.

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

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Sallust

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hare, David

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

Terence

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Crane, George W.

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

Milton, John

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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

Wright, Steven

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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

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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 most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Aesop

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

Horace