Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Riley, Terry

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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sperry, Roger

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Sallust

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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 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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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin