Motivational Quotes

Mind

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

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

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Sallust

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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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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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 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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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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

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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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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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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 mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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

Milton, John

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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