Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
—Common Proverb
The mind like a parachute functions only when open.
—Indian Proverb
What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.
—Unknown
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one’s life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
—Louis L’Amour (1908–88) American Novelist, Short-Story Writer
This is where you will win the battle—in the playhouse of your mind.
—Maxwell Maltz (1899–1975) American Surgeon, Motivational Writer
The mind’s deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man’s unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
—Albert Camus (1913–60) Algerian-born French Philosopher, Dramatist, Novelist
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
—H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American Science-fiction Writer
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
—Bruce Jenner (b.1949) American Sportsperson
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 (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
The Brain is wider than the sky-.
—Emily Dickinson (1830–86) American Poet
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
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 (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic
Don’t let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.
—Unknown
There is no perfection of the wisdom of one who has a fluctuating mind, does not know the good doctrine and has a shaking faith.
—Buddhist Teaching
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 Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
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 (1923–79) Israeli American Scientist
Childish raptures!
—Taylor Caldwell (1900–85) American Novelist
Always wavering and flitting, as well as unruly and stubborn is this mind. A wise man can still it just as a Fletcher straightens his arrows.
—Buddhist Teaching
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.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.
—The Bhagavad Gita Hindu Scripture
It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.
—Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836–86) Indian Hindu Philosopher
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.
—William C. Durant (1861–1947) American Industrialist
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
—Terence (c.195–159 BCE) Roman Comic Dramatist
Mind moves matter.
—Virgil (70–19 BCE) Roman Poet
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
—W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
—Aesop (620–564 BCE) Greek Fabulist
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
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 Stanislavski (1863–1938) Russian Actor, Theater Personality
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