Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Auden, W. H.

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.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Wright, Steven

Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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 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 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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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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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sallust

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Buddha

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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