Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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

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

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

Plutarch

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

Brande, Dorothea

Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Loos, Anita

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Hamilton, Edith

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

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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Fairfax, Edward

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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 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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Crane, George W.

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

Wright, Steven

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace