Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

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

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Sallust

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

Wright, Steven

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aesop

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Loos, Anita

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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 conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

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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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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