Mind Quotes
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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.
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I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.
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The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.
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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
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I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.
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As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, 'Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!'There was no answer. There had never been an answer.
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In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.
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Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.
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I think it is important to speak your mind. Tolerance of the ignorance sends the wrong message to kids.
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If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.
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The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
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The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
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It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons.
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Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.
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God goes with me everywhere, because God is in my mind.
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I leaned too early. I was running, I looked across, I realised I was going to win - the thought I was on for a world record entered my mind - I reached for the line when I should have stayed straight.
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In how many churches, by how many prophets, tell me, is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul; that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind; that he is drinking forever the soul of God?
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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
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Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.
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To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.
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Rules emerge as a spontaneous order–they are found–not deliberately designed by one calculating mind. Initially constructivist institutions undergo evolutionary change adapting beyond the circumstances that gave them birth. What emerges is a form of 'social mind' that solves complex organization problems without conscious cognition.
