Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Hendricks, Gay

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Riley, Terry

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Dubay, S.

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

Sallust

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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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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 always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Auden, W. H.

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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