Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Syrus, Publilius

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 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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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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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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Loos, Anita

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

Steinbeck, John

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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

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Sperry, Roger

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Aesop

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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