- Nov 07, 2020
Mind Quotes
What occupies the mind, for better or worse.
Quotes about the "mind" here range widely — a lifelong search for hidden meaning sits alongside a startlingly honest admission that resentment has occupied more mental space than friendship ever did. For related reflection, see Body quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
- Debatable
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- Nov 07, 2020
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be.
- Ghosts
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- Nov 07, 2020
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also, I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why are we outsourcing millions of high-paying jobs to China and India? Why don't we secure the border and stop the country from being flooded with millions of illegal immigrants? These are important questions on the mind of middle class voters all over America.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll drop something for a while, a year or maybe several years, and then pick it up again. I think that's the way successful innovators work. They keep juggling ideas, keeping them in the air, in the back of their mind, to inspire them or enable new recombinations.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020