Motivational Quotes

Mind

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

- Hilliard, Nicholas

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Buddha

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

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

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

Dickens, Charles

10.

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

11.

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

12.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

13.

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

14.

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

Pancoast, Mal

15.

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

Milton, John

16.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

17.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

18.

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

Brande, Dorothea

19.

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

20.

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

Loos, Anita

21.

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

22.

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

26.

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

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

28.

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

Crane, George W.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

32.

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

33.

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

Freud, Sigmund

34.

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

35.

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

36.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

37.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Hendricks, Gay

40.

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

Plutarch

41.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

42.

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

43.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

44.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

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

Dubay, S.

46.

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

Wright, Steven

47.

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

48.

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

Dyer, Wayne

49.

The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

50.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von