Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

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

Dubay, S.

How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

Sperry, Roger

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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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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Sallust

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Crane, George W.

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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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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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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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Cousins, Norman

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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.

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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

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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

Aesop

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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