Mind Quotes

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

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

Sigmund Freud

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Sigmund Freud

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Mark Twain

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce

Terry Pratchett

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

Steve Jobs

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most

Mark Twain

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Buddha

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Joyce Meyer

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

George Eliot

Minds differ still more than faces

Voltaire

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Bertrand Russell

I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one ?

Albert Einstein

The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

Anon.

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

David Sarnoff

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Jane Austen