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  • I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
        Galileo Galilei   Best?
  • If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • Perception is strong, sight is weak.
        Miyamoto Musashi   Best?
  • Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
        Calvin Coolidge   Best?
  • Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.
        Edward George Bulwer-Lytton   Best?
  • Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
        Thomas Fuller   Best?
  • Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
        Cicero   Best?
  • I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.
        Neil Gaiman   Best?
  • The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
        Wilfred Funk   Best?
  • I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... [i] t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it! It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode!
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view.
        Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde   Best?
  • But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on -- and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
        Toni Morrison   Best?
  • A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Chance favors the prepared mind.
        Louis Pasteur   Best?
  • Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.
        Yogi Berra   Best?
  • The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
        Aesop   Best?
  • If you leave the smallest corner of your mind open for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
        Oscar Levant   Best?
  • It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
        Ricard   Best?
  • If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Ability is nothing without opportunity.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
        Mary Pettibone Poole   Best?
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?

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