Abel Stevens Quotes
No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
Abel Stevens
Quotes to Explore
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Jung
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant
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The human mind gets used to strangeness very quickly if it does not exhibit interesting behavior.
Dan Simmons
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Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
Alfred North Whitehead
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And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, you fixed yourself, you said, 'Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music.'
Leonard Cohen
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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Albert Einstein
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I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.
Daniel Tammet
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I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.
Berglind Icey
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Prosecutors committed to reform need talented staff members who share that commitment, and our best legal talent should flock to their offices.
James Forman, Jr.
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
P. J. O'Rourke
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All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.
Konrad Adenauer
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
Abel Stevens