Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Johnson

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

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

The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Hare, David

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Loos, Anita

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

Horace

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Wright, Steven

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

Brande, Dorothea