Quotes about mind

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

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

— John Adams

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

— Aesop

Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

— James Allen

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.

— Edith Armstrong

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

— W. H. Auden

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

— Meher Baba

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

— Walter Bagehot

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.

— Richard Bandler

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

— Thomas A. Bennett

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.

— Itzhak Bentov

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

— Henri L. Bergson

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.

— Aneurin Bevan

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

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

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

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

— Dorothea Brande

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

— Dorothea Brande

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.

— Andre Breton

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

— Jacob Bronowski

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

— Pearl S. Buck

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

— Lord Buckley

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

— Buddha

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

— Richard Carlson

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.

— Andrew Carnegie

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

— Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

— Lord Chesterfield

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

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

— Winston Churchill

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

— Marcus T. Cicero

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— E. M. Cioran

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.

— Robert Collier

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

— Charles Horton Cooley

The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.

— Henry Courtney

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

— Norman Cousins

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

— George W. Crane

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.

— Ralph J. Cudworth

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.

— Will Cuppy

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.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

— Anthony J. D'Angelo

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

— Peter Daniel

If you never change your mind, why have one?

— Edward De Bono

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— Thomas Robert Dewar

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

— Emily Dickinson

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

— George A. Dorsey

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— S. Dubay

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

— William J. Durant

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

— Wayne Dyer

As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

— Wayne Dyer

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

— Wayne Dyer

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.

— Mary Baker Eddy

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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.

— Albert Einstein

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

— Euripides

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

— Edward Fairfax

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

— Marilyn Ferguson

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

— Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

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.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Buckminster Fuller

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

— Kahlil Gibran

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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.

— Gunther Grass

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.

— Edith Hamilton

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.

— Dr. Jean Hanson

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

— David Hare

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.

— Willis Harman

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

— William Hazlitt

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

— Gay Hendricks

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.

— Gilbert Highet

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

— Nicholas Hilliard

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

— Josiah Gilbert Holland

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.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Horace

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

— Elbert Hubbard

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

— Washington Irving

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

— Andrew Jackson

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

— Bruce Jenner

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.

— George Jessel

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

— Johnson

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

— Johnson

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

— Gerald W. Johnson