Quotes about mind

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

— Samuel Johnson

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

— Joseph Joubert

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

— Carl Jung

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

— Thomas Kempis

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

— John F. Kennedy

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

— Rudyard Kipling

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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.

— John Lardner

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

— Maxwell Maltz

This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

— Maxwell Maltz

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Abraham H. Maslow

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

— Henry Miller

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

— Henry Miller

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

— John Milton

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

— Alfred E. Neuman

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

— Earl Nightingale

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

— Earl Nightingale

Half this game is 90% mental.

— Danny Ozark

There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

— Mal Pancoast

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.

— Maureen Phillips

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

We are that which activates the body.

— Peace Pilgrim

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

— Plutarch

How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

— Endless Praise

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

— Proverb

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

— Dan Quayle

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

— John Quinton

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

— Sri Ramakrishna

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.

— Ayn Rand

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.

— Gabriele Lusser Rico

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

— Terry Riley

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

— Anthony Robbins

All the resources we need are in the mind

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Sallust

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

— David Sarnoff

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

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

— William Shakespeare

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

— Adam Smith

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.

— Grace Speare

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

— Edmund Spenser

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

— Roger Sperry

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.

— Konstantin Stanislavisky

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Terence

The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.

— Thomas Troward

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?

— Source Unknown

Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.

— Source Unknown

Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.

— Source Unknown

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

— Source Unknown

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employ itself, but is almost sure to be the means of giving wholesome employment to others.

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

Mind moves matter.

— Virgil

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

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

— Lyall Watson

Mind is the great lever of all things.

— Daniel Webster

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

— Oscar Wilde

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

— Colin Wilson

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.

— John Wooden

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?

— Virginia Woolf

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

— Virginia Woolf

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.

— William Wordsworth

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

— Steven Wright

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

For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

— Bhagavad Gita

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

— Princess of Wales Diana

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

— Wayne Dyer

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

— Fran Lebowitz

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

— Lin Yu-tang

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.

— Sidney Madwed

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

— Norman Vincent Peale

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.

— Yoga Vasishtha

Before I judge anything, first I ask, is it true about myself?

— James Dye

Paradise is Where I Am.

— Voltaire

It is hard to show you the bigger picture when you don't have the right frame of mind.

— Jvongard

When you shine the light, darkness disappears. We may understand this as a kind of fight between light and darkness, but in reality, it is an embrace. Mindfulness, if practiced continuously, will be strong enough to embrace your fear or anger and transform it. We need not chase away evil. We can embrace and transform it in a nonviolent, nondualistic way.

— Thich Nhat Hahn

Your head is a lit chamber.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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?

— Virginia Woolf

Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies.

— Dr. Jeff C Miller

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters.

— Stephen King

If you don't take time to actively garden your mind, it will run amok with noxious thoughts that leech off the nutrients within the soil of your mindscape.

— A. Brandon Trean

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in the small mind only.~Anuj Somany

— Anuj Somany

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— Kamila Onikosi

So this gentlemen said, “A girl with brains ought to do something else with them besides think.”

— Anita Loos

Is there no way out of the mind?

— Sylvia Plath