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Quote 3157
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 3134
Human beings can alter their lifes by altering their attitudes of mind.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 3124
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancingby: William JamesShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 3113
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 3107
Ideas are, in truth, force.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 3104
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 3088
Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are rightby: Henry FordShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 3021
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmativeby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 3019
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happyby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 3010
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mindby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 3004
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinkingby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2987
Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass itAfrican proverbShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2984
A wise man seeks wisdom; a madman thinks that he has found it.Persian proverbShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2970
Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mindShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2961
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poeticalShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2947
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we haveby: John LockeShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2943
Logic is the anatomy of thoughtby: John LockeShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2920
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyeby: John LockeShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2902
Some people read because they are too lazy to thinkShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2896
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have doneShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2891
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at allShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2887
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observingShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2883
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.Showing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2867
The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizingShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2866
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idleShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2863
To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debtsShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2853
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from themShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2846
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to loseShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2821
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2815
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adamby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2811
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sidesby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2802
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move themShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2764
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalistby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2760
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapyby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2749
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.by: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2744
Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of manby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2740
What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either partyby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2739
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select partyby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2702
Philosophy will clip an angel's wingsby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2701
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mysteryby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2699
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monkby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2697
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bidShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2673
A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.Showing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2669
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom useShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2662
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomesShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2610
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stoneShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2602
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughtsShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2580
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reasonby: Edward CokeShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2566
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loafShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2564
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.Showing Quotes on mind
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