Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Cioran, E. M.

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Plutarch

Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Syrus, Publilius

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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

Riley, Terry

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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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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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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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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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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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