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

Auden, W. H.

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

Cioran, E. M.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Sperry, Roger

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

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Dubay, S.

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Milton, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Horace

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

Descartes, Rene

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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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.