Mind Quotations
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| No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. | |||
| - Arnold Bennett | |||
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| A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. | |||
| - Cicero | |||
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| The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. | |||
| - Sigmund Freud | |||
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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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| The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. | |||
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes | |||
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| It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. | |||
| - Horace | |||
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| If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. | |||
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |||
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| The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. | |||
| - Katherine Mansfield | |||
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| Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds. | |||
| - Franklin D. Roosevelt | |||
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| All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
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| The mind is the most capricious of insects - flitting, fluttering. | |||
| - Virginia Woolf | |||