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

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

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

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

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

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

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Fuller, Buckminster

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Horace

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Dickens, Charles

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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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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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Sallust

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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