Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Freud, Sigmund

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Terence

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Loos, Anita

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Dubay, S.

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You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

Wooden, John

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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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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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 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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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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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 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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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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

Aesop

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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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 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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Horace

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

Brande, Dorothea