Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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

Brande, Dorothea

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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 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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.

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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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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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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

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

Riley, Terry

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

Sperry, Roger

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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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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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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 closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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