Motivational Quotes

Mind

It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

- Phillips, Maureen

Best Quotes about Mind

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

Phillips, Maureen

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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

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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

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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

Fairfax, Edward

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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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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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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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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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

Loos, Anita

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

Hare, David

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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.