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

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

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

Johnson

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

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

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

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

Terence

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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 is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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 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

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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 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

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Aesop

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Plutarch

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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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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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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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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 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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.