Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

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

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Johnson

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

Wooden, John

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

Loos, Anita

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

Horace

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Johnson

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

Sallust

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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.