Quotes about mind

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

Crane, George W. on mind
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"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."

Cudworth, Ralph J. on mind   

"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 on mind   

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo on mind
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"Have a strong mind and a soft heart."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on mind
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"Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite."

Daniel, Peter on mind
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"If you never change your mind, why have one?"

Bono, Edward De on mind
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"It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well."

Descartes, Rene on mind
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"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."

Dewar, Thomas Robert on mind
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"Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."

Dickens, Charles on mind   

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

Dickens, Charles on mind   

"The Brain is wider than the sky-."

Dickinson, Emily on mind
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"The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use."

Dorsey, George A. on mind
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"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."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on mind   

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

Dubay, S. on mind   

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

Durant, William J. on mind
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"If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds."

Dyer, Wayne on mind   

"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."

Dyer, Wayne on mind
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"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."

Dyer, Wayne on mind   

"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 on mind   

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

Edison, Thomas A. on mind
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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 on mind   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on 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 on mind   

"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 on mind
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"The wavering mind is but a base possession."

Euripides on mind   

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

Fairfax, Edward on mind   

"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."

Ferguson, Marilyn on mind   

"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."

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier on mind   

"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."

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

Freud, Sigmund on mind
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"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness."

Freud, Sigmund on mind
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"Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable."

Fuller, Buckminster on mind
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"A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think."

Loos, Anita on mind
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"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."

Gibran, Kahlil on mind
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"The human mind will not be confined to any limits."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on mind   

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on mind
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"Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind."

Goldsmith, Oliver on mind   

"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."

Grass, Gunther on mind