Mind Quotes
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
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His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
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The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.
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In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you.
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Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.
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This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."
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Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
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The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.
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It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.
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I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.
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A taste is subtle sense and the genius is a sublime mind.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
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The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
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There was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.
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At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
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Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.
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I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.
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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
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The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.
