You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.
—George W. Crane (1901–95) American Psychologist, Physician, Columnist
This is where you will win the battle—in the playhouse of your mind.
—Maxwell Maltz (1899–1975) American Surgeon, Motivational Writer
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.
—Robert Collier (1885–1950) American Self-Help Author
If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.
—Unknown
Texas is not a state—it’s a state of mind.
—John Steinbeck (1902–68) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
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, Speaker, Consultant
The mind like a parachute functions only when open.
—Indian Proverb
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
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
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
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
—Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters
The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic
He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) English Political Philosopher
The mind, like the dyer’s hand, is colored by what it holds.
—Indian Proverb
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
—Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
—Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American Novelist, Human Rights Activist
Like a fish taken out of its watery home and thrown onto the land, this mind, when parted with its haunts of sensual enjoyments in order to disregard Mara’s (the Evil One’s) influence, will give a desperate struggle.
—Buddhist Teaching
The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn’t wear out. Probably it’s because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.
—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
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
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
—Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (b.1947) American Basketball Player, Author, Actor
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
—Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher
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
Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
—Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) Scottish-American Industrialist
The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.
—Unknown
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
—Common Proverb
Mind moves matter.
—Virgil (70–19 BCE) Roman Poet
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