Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Johnson

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.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Buddha

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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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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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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Loos, Anita

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Steinbeck, John

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

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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 mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.