Mind Quotes
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Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.
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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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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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Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.
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Abraham Lincoln had great clarity of mind and expression, and he worked to make it clearer -reading Euclid in his early 30s to train his mind.
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Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.
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You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
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I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.
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Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.
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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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I love anything that really pushes the envelope as far as where it takes your mind. When it's well written and brings you into a world that possibly could be, I think that's the most entertaining for me - to see something that could actually take place and causes you to think.
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Try to keep your mind. Try not to eat bad, try not to wake up with too bad of a hangover.
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Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?
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Peace of counscious is greater than peace of mind. Peace of mind is more externally oriented. Peace of consciousness is when you know you have been honest in all your business dealings.
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Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.
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Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.
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The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
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I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.
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The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
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I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.
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I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.
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The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.
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True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.
