Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Aesop

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dubay, S.

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

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

Sallust

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob