Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Johnson

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Brande, Dorothea

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Hendricks, Gay

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Freud, Sigmund

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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 moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Buddha

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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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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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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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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Plutarch

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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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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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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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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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

Diana, Princess of Wales