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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Johnson

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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

Cousins, Norman

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

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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

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

Dubay, S.

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

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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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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 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

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

Wooden, John

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Wright, Steven

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Sperry, Roger

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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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

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Buddha

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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