Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Descartes, Rene

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Loos, Anita

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Descartes, Rene

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aesop

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

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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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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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

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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Buddha

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

26.

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

Milton, John

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Plutarch

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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