Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

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• I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

  

  Ja Rule
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• It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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• I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.

  

  Lamar Odom
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• My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Mind
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• I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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  • Me
  • Kind

• I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Artist

• The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Mind
  • You
  • Expectations

• Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Impossible

• I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
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  • Heart
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• When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Star

• Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing, but is alone itself by itself.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Mind
  • Alone

• To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness - care for watching, but don't stop and interpret 'I am free,' then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Mind

• That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a disputable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mind

• No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
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• You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Long
  • Mind
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• Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Confidence

• He who constantly swims in the ocean loves dry land.

  

  Anton Chekhov
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• ...you're on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Universe

• The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

  

  Hector Elizondo
  • Mexicans
  • Cubans

• Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Drawing

• A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Mind
  • Educated
  • Cultivated