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- 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
- Stop
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to stop and build protectionism out there, but I certainly don't mind tough negotiation with our trade partners.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
- Blind Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
- Nov 07, 2020
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020