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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
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I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.
Unknown
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Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
Ann Landers
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The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
Ayn Rand
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin
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One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.
J. Gustav White
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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.
Muriel Strode
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Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
Henry David Thoreau
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. Rowling
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It is the mind that makes the man.
Ovid
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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
Eric Hoffer
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Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
Peter McWilliams
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Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein
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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons
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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca
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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
Seneca
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
Seneca
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Seneca
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
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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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Genius is talent provided with ideals.
W. Somerset Maugham
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You have brains in your head.
Dr. Seuss
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.
Plato
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It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
Kahlil Gibran
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...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
John F. Kennedy
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Leave no stone unturned.
Euripedes
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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob A. Riis
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Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
C. S. Lewis
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He was a wise man who invented God.
Plato
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The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlin
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epicurus
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Jonathan Edwards
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
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