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

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

Buddha

Highet, Gilbert

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

Wright, Steven

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

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

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Johnson

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Freud, Sigmund

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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

Dubay, S.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Plutarch

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

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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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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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

Loos, Anita

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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.

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

Syrus, Publilius