Brian Patten Quotes
On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.
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I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
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Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
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Minds ripen at very different ages.
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People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.
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Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.
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In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.
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I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.
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Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.
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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
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It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.
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Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.
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We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
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Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.
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If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
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Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
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On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.
