Motivational Quotes

Mind

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Best Quotes about Mind

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

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

Dubay, S.

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

Sallust

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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 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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Wright, Steven

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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Aesop

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Horace

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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 its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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