All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
—Norman Cousins (1912–1990) American Political Journalist
Whatever that be which thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine, and on that account must necessarily be eternal.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
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 (1922–2007) 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 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
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 (1910–2010) American Sportsperson
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
—Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist
Restless are the body and mind on him whose concentration on the breaths is not yet made complete and cultivated. Calm are the body and mind of him whose concentration on the breaths has been made complete and well-cultivated.
—Buddhist Teaching
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.
—Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American Author, Editor, Orator
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
—Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
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
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
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
—Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (b.1947) American Basketball Player, Author, Actor
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?
—The Bhagavad Gita Hindu Scripture
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
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.
—Zhuang Zhou (c.369–c.286 BCE) Chinese Taoist Philosopher
Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo
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 (1905–82) Russian-born American Novelist, Philosopher
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
—Robertson Davies (1913–95) Canadian Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.
—Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836–86) Indian Hindu Philosopher
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts
—Earl Nightingale (1921–89) American Motivational Speaker, Author
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 (1882–1941) English Novelist
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?
—Unknown
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 (1770–1850) English Poet
He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.
—The Bhagavad Gita Hindu Scripture
It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he forgot nothing of what he had done, read, or thought, in any part of his rational age. This is a privilege so little known to most men, that it seems almost incredible to those who, after the ordinary way, measure all others by themselves; but yet, when considered, may help us to enlarge our thoughts towards greater perfections of it, in superior ranks of spirits.
—John Locke (1632–1704) English Philosopher, Physician
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