Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

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

Hendricks, Gay

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Baba, Meher

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Auden, W. H.

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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

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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 was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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

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Ashvaghosha

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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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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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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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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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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.