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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Open wide the mind's cage-door,She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

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John KeatsThe Complete Poems

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read o...

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You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the ev...

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The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

Infernal world, and thou profoundest HellReceive thy new Possessor: One who bringsA mind not to be c...

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Your mind was made to know and love God.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the wor...

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Your mind was made to know and love God.

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Your mind was made to know and love God.

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Your mind was made to know and love God.

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

I wonder about people who say they haven't time to think. For myself, I can double think. I find tha...

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Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns...

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The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and bec...

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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best ...

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Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effo...

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It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that comprehended them both, a...

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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most impo...

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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to...

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True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruli...

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So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it...

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[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]

Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of...

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It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the major...

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Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things out...

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the useful and or...

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A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to expr...

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The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it all the past as well as all th...

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The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the fu...

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But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.

Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a ...

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The mind of man is capable of anything.

The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the...

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectr...

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Self-reflection or autognosis reveals that what is given in consciousness is, first and foremost, in...

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Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocab...

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O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What i...

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Julian JaynesThe Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached t...

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I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if yo...

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The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mi...

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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned fr...

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The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, ...

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I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that...

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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to lif...

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I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wond...

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The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps ...

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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wo...

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It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behav...

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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The...

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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and...

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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kin...

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It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. Th...

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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself...

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He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

I curate my life in a way. It's always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I'm not...

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Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positiv...

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Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.

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Louis L'AmourEducation of a Wandering Man

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles....

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub ...

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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does ...

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Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction ...

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When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...

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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find...

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When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more ...

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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone ...

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, ...

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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortre...

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If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-...

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It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, ...

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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly al...

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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn o...

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Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.