Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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.

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.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Milton, John

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

Descartes, Rene

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

Philo

10.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Hendricks, Gay

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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Sallust

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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

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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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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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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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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dubay, S.

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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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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

49.

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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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