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  • My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
        Epictetus   Best?
  • If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
  • [Water is] the only drink for a wise man.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
        Rita Mae Brown   Best?
  • The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  • I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture.
        Sidney Madwed   Best?
  • It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
        H. P. Lovecraft   Best?
  • He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.
        Whittaker Chambers   Best?
  • True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
  • The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
        Ian Fleming   Best?
  • Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.
        M. Scott Peck   Best?
  • Democracy works. Against us.
        Jon Stewart   Best?
  • I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
        Michelangelo Buonarroti   Best?
  • A wise man is never to sure of what he knows to be true.
        James W. Gray   Best?
  • The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.
        Michelangelo   Best?
  • To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
        Buddha   Best?
  • There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.
        Marilyn Manson   Best?
  • Boldness in itself is genius.
        L. Ron Hubbard   Best?
  • The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.
        Jeff Melvoin   Best?
  • Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • When I was born, I was black. When I grow up, I'm black. When I'm ill, When I die, I'm black. But you - When you're born, you're pink. When you grow up, you're white. When you're ill, you're green. When you go out in the sun, you go red. When you're cold, you go blue. When you die, you're purple. And you have the nerve to call me Colored?
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
        Fred Astaire   Best?
  • Life is consciousness.
        Emmet Fox   Best?
  • Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.
        Alexander Senturia   Best?
  • Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel".
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
        Alexander Pope   Best?
  • In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
        Cicero   Best?
  • We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
        William Shakespeare   Best?

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