Quotes about mind

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem on mind   

"Your mind is what makes everything else work."

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem on mind
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"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."

Adams, John on mind
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"We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance."

Aesop on mind
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"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."

Allen, James on mind   

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

Auden, W. H. on mind
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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 on mind
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"What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind."

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

Bennett, Thomas A. on mind   

"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 on mind   

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

Bergson, Henri L. on mind
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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 on mind   

"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 on mind
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"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 on mind
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"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

Bibesco, Elizabeth on mind
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"Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier."

Brande, Dorothea on mind
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"Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled."

Brande, Dorothea on mind
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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 on mind   

"The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

Bronowski, Jacob on mind
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"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. "

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

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

Buddha on mind
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"The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on mind   

"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. on mind
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"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."

Carlson, Richard on mind   

"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 on mind   

"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on mind   

"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."

Chesterfield, Lord on mind   

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

Chesterfield, Lord on mind
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"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 on mind   

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

Churchill, Winston on mind
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"Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine."

Cicero, Marcus T. on mind   

"All things tend to corrupt perverted minds."

Cicero, Marcus T. on mind   

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

Cioran, E. M. on mind   

"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."

Collier, Robert on mind   

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

Cooley, Charles Horton on mind   

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

Courtney, Henry on mind   

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

Cousins, Norman on mind