Motivational Quotes

Mind

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

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

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Plutarch

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Johnson

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb