Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

- Smith, Adam

Best Quotes about Mind

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

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

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

Steinbeck, John

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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

Johnson

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

Auden, W. H.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Sallust

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Dubay, S.

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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.

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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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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Aesop

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Horace

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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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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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 not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

Cioran, E. M.