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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
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
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
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
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
Quote 2961
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poeticalShowing Quotes on mind
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
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
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
Quote 2867
The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizingShowing Quotes on mind
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
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
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
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
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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Quote 2552
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong thingsShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2551
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of crueltyShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2537
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn thingsShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 2507
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk aboutby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2497
An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brainsby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 2480
“Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writingShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2466
All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think noblyShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2465
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lostShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2460
It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplishedShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2451
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignoranceShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 2438
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignityShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 2428
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentrationby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 2419
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitledby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2414
It is the mind that makes the body richby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 2386
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who thinkShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2380
To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing elseShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2372
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and noveltyShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2342
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truthShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2335
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonablyShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2274
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie alsoby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 2260
As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search: You'll find what you desireby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 2236
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspirationShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2230
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itselfShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2223
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to workShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2202
Better to be without logic than without feelingby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 2191
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of goodShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2170
Children use the fist until they are of the age to use the brainShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2149
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be boldShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 2142
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to thinkby: Luther BurbankShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2139
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a whileby: Luther BurbankShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2122
The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2093
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mindby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 2028
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.Showing Quotes on mind
Quote 2026
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of educationby: AntisthenesShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 1998
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and wellShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 1996
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besidesShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 1995
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the manShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 1787
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenityby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 1784
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this worldby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 1773
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideasby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 1772
Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisibleby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on mind
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominionby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 1731
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the bodyby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 1723
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloudby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on mind
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Quote 1701
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.Showing Quotes on mind
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Quote 1688
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working orderShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 1648
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.Showing Quotes on mind
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Quote 1630
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.by: Lawrence SterneShowing Quotes on mind
Quote 1624
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.by: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on mind
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A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of lifeby: Jean IngelowShowing Quotes on mind
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