Motivational Quotes

Mind

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Aesop

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

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sallust

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Fairfax, Edward

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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 is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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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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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smith, Adam

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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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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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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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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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 mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Cousins, Norman