Mind Quotes
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"A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince."
-Henry David Thoreau
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-Henry David Thoreau
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"To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder."
-Albert Einstein
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-Albert Einstein
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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
-Voltaire
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-Voltaire
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"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. ."
-Abraham Lincoln
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-Abraham Lincoln
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"I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people."
-Mark Twain
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-Mark Twain
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"If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"
-George Orwell
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-George Orwell
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr. Seuss
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-Dr. Seuss
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible."
-Aristotle
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-Aristotle
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
-Thomas Jefferson
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-Thomas Jefferson
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"...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."
-Oscar Wilde
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-Oscar Wilde
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"A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse."
-Sophocles
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-Sophocles
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"Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think and plan."
-W. Clement Stone
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-W. Clement Stone
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"People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear."
-Maria Mitchell
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-Maria Mitchell
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"A very receptive state of mind...not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it."
-Minor White
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-Minor White
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"Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive."
-Charles Caleb Colton
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-Charles Caleb Colton
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"When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower."
-Maxwell Maltz
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-Maxwell Maltz
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"Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil."
-Charles Simmons
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-Charles Simmons
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"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
-Thurgood Marshall
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-Thurgood Marshall
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"The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind."
-George Moore
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-George Moore
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"Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them."
-Washington Irving
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-Washington Irving
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