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

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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

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

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It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Cioran, E. M.

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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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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 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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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Loos, Anita

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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Baba, Meher

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

Wright, Steven

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Horace

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The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

Praise, Endless

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.