MIND QUOTES IV

quotations about the mind

Of all the things I've lost, it's my mind I miss the most.

OZZY OSBOURNE

attributed, Foolish Words: The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken

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Some minds are so unclothed that they are indecent.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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His mind was like the sea itself: troubled, and too deep for the bravest man's descent, throwing up now and again, for the naked eye to wonder at, treasure and debris long forgotten on the bottom--bones and jewels, fantastic shells, jelly that had once been flesh, pearls that had once been eyes. And he was at the mercy of this sea, hanging there with darkness all around him.

JAMES BALDWIN

Go Tell It on the Mountain

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A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

A Universe from Nothing

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The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlor remains clean.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

SENECA

Thyestes

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Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Choke

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Without the mind, sensuality quite has no organs to call her own!

J. D. SALINGER

"Hapworth 16, 1924"

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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

JOHN ADAMS

attributed, Looking Toward Sunset: From Sources Old and New, Original and Selected

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All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality.

ALFRED L. KROEBER

The Superorganic

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It is the mind that maketh good or ill,
That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

EDMUND SPENSER

The Faerie Queene

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First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations

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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

FRANK HERBERT

Dune

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind,
Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.

LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

Trivia

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Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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