Motivational Quotes

Mind

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Mind

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.

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

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

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Plutarch

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

Cioran, E. M.

Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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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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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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

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

Aesop

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Loos, Anita

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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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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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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

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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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The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Churchill, Winston

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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

Wright, Steven

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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 employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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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

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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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 moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.