Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Sperry, Roger

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

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

Aesop

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Maltz, Maxwell

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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

Freud, Sigmund

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Milton, John

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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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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sallust

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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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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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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Dubay, S.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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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