Top 100 Quotes About The Mind
#1. The mind grows only through use, and it atrophies through idleness.
Napoleon Hill
#2. The principle of positive thinking is simplicity itself. Picture an outcome, dwell on it in your thoughts and feelings, and unseen agencies - whether metaphysical or psychological - will supposedly come to your aid. Seen in this way, the mind is a causative force.
Mitch Horowitz
#3. I love travel, it promotes open-mindedness, and I believe that the interactions you have as you go places and meet people all sharpen the mind.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#4. I want young people to look at me and go, 'Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be on point. He represent black people.' I want to make the life of the mind sexy.
Michael Eric Dyson
#5. Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart. War begins in the mind and ends in the body.
Sri Chinmoy
#6. Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.
Tad Williams
#7. Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
Madame De Stael
#8. Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind.
Marty Rubin
#9. Danger for the mind, of course, but not for you.
Osho
#10. The cold rationalism simply covers for raw, wounded emotion. The more driven people are by the mind, the more they feel and further encode their feelings. The thickness of the tarpaulin cover is as the size of the emotion.
Dalit Orbach
#11. The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.
Shannon L. Alder
#12. Everything in the world that we perceive is an expression of the mind.
Christopher Dines
#14. Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#15. Our limited mind is our enemy and our unlimited mind is our best friend. When you become a slave of the mind, it will limit you. When you use it, it will bring you the whole universe.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#16. That last afternoon in Henry's hotel room was for me like a white-hot furnace. Before, I had only white heat of the mind and of the imagination; now it is of the blood. Sacred completeness. I come out dazed in the mellow spring evening and I think, now I would not mind dying.
Anais Nin
#17. Allow yourself to be freed from the constraints of what the mind knows, believes & thinks.
Eleesha
#18. Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#20. It's not what the mind says.
It's how seriously it is taken.
Mooji
#21. The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve either.
Glenn Frank
#22. I don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
#23. In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present. It also raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that give life to the physical body.
Eckhart Tolle
#24. I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.
Jason Momoa
#26. What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
Harry Browne
#27. The moment you establish a line of communication between two points, you subtly change both. That is also true for the way the brain is affected by the mind.
David Amerland
#28. There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.
Cornel West
#29. I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced.
Aimee Mullins
#30. The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.
Carl Honore
#31. Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength, intelligence and vitality. But it should be practiced properly in solitude and with care.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#32. I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, for the mind and sensibilities of future generations toward the world itself.
Richard O'Barry
#33. The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.
David Haas
#34. Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.
David Hume
#36. The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#37. To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first ... acceptance totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are [;] ... the second ... that one must never, in one's life, accept ... injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength.
James Baldwin
#38. Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.
P.D. James
#39. Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
Lance Morrow
#40. Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.
Edwin Newman
#41. Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
Maya Angelou
#42. Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.
Ashraf Ghani
#43. Are there not hours of an immortal birth, - Bright visitations from a purer sphere, That cannot live in language? Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds? -
Robert Montgomery
#45. The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.
William Meade
#46. On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se.
Al Seckel
#47. Become the difference you want to make, and the heart of your mind will feel what the mind of your heart knows.
Stan Ellis
#48. But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#49. It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
Seneca.
#50. Above all, meditation is about letting the mind be as it is and knowing something about how it is in this moment. It's not about getting somewhere else, but about allowing yourself to be where you already are.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#51. The mind tricks the body,
Body thinks the mind is crazy ...
Buckshot
#52. When mind uses itself without the hands it runs the circle and may go too fast ... The hand that shapes the mind into clay or written word slows thought to the gait of things and lets it be subject to accident and time. Purity is on the edge of evil, they say.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#53. What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a mind: they are mixed up together. Shakespeare with a hole in his sock will not write the sonnet of a Shakespeare with socks intact.
Kenneth Patchen
#54. The reality of the mind can be one hundred percent different than the reality of the reality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. The mind advances only if it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.
Emil Cioran
#56. In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear.
William Blake
#57. The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.
Simon McBurney
#58. Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.
Charles Darwin
#59. Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil! Retrieve the utter tranquility of the mind from which you issued.
Although all forms are dynamic,and we all grow and transform,each of us is compelled to return to our root. Our root is quietude.
Lao-Tzu
#60. We knot our imagination to fear to creat aham. Tapasya and yagna are two tools that can help us unknot the mind, outgrow fear and discover atma, our true self.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#61. They say sex is all in the mind. That's not strictly true. Desire begins in the mind but is satisfied in the body. The erotic understands this. The erotic is the completion of a mental need played out on a physical playground. Once you go erotic you never go back.
Chloe Thurlow
#62. Science is not formal logic-it needs the free play of the mind in as great a degree as any other creative art. It is true that this is a gift which can hardly be taught, but its growth can be encouraged in those who already posses it.
Max Born
#63. The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
Baruch Spinoza
#64. The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#65. The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth
Jagadish Chandra Bose
#66. The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.
Gerald Edelman
#67. Write to me Emmi. Writing is like kissing, but without lips. Writing is kissing with the mind.
Daniel Glattauer
#68. Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#69. Of all animal movements, flight is indisputably the finest. . . . The fact that a creature as heavy, bulk for bulk, as many solid substances, can by the unaided movements of its wings urge itself through the air with a speed little short of a cannonball, fills the mind with wonder.
David McCullough
#71. And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
Robert Barry
#72. The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.
Lemony Snicket
#73. I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
Antoni Tapies
#74. The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#75. Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.
David Z. Hirsch
#76. An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
#77. How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#78. Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart. - from The Iron
Henry Rollins
#79. Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the future. This is why all wise beings encourage us to go beyond the mind into the timeless, boundless transcendence of heart-centered awareness.
David Simon
#80. Every thought creates a plan,every decision creates a way forward, every action brings forth tangible assets. Everything starts from the mind my friend.
Euginia Herlihy
#81. The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.
Stephen King
#82. The body is like an engine. When the engine is shut down, there is no way you can even think of taking care of yourself. When you have food, the mind can take care of all those things.
Benjamin Ajak
#83. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.
Patrick Rothfuss
#84. The faculty of continual transformation ... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind
Anagarika Govinda
#85. I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.
Gerald Clarke
#86. The spirit for me is the eternal self. And when one incarnates, an aspect comes with that incarnation, that's called the soul. And together the mind, the emotional body, and the soul form the energy field that lives within this thing called the human body.
Caroline Myss
#87. The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#88. Since life is a dream I think I'll stop eating and drinking so much
do some ethereal daydreaming instead
go in the mansion of the mind and close all the doors, as if I was traveling in the back of a bus for 4 days & 4 nights, broke.
Jack Kerouac
#89. Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
Terence
#90. Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind
Gautama Buddha
#91. Romantic love is not an emotion ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.
Helen Fisher
#92. It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself in the details of some small endeavor has been considered lost to these larger considerations which must occupy the mind of the ruler.
Richard M. Weaver
#93. Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.
Oscar Wilde
#94. The mind is the chisel, matter is the stone and life is the sculpture. Make sure you use your chisel wisely
Carsten Ostergaard Pedersen
#96. Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#97. It is just as honorable ... to dig in the dirt as to dig into books. The mind can do its best work only when th body has been developed equally well.
William Warren Prescott
#99. Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.
Mark Batterson
#100. I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind ...
Wilder Penfield
