Motivational Quotes

Mind

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

- Hendricks, Gay

Best Quotes about Mind

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

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Loos, Anita

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Johnson

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Plutarch

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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 direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Churchill, Winston

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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

Hare, David

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

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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 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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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 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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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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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

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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Aesop

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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.