Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Steinbeck, John

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

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Riley, Terry

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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

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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 true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 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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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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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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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Terence

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Sallust

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Jenner, Bruce

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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon