Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Sperry, Roger

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Freud, Sigmund

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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

Buddha

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Marden, Orison Swett

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Churchill, Winston

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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Durant, William J.

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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Descartes, Rene

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Loos, Anita

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Sperry, Roger

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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence