Motivational Quotes

Mind

If you never change your mind, why have one?

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Mind

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

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

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

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

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Sarnoff, David

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Plutarch

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

Sperry, Roger

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

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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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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Hare, David

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

Cioran, E. M.

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The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Dubay, S.

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

Horace

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Terence