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Arnold Bennett (top)
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
- Arnold Bennett


Cicero (top)
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
- Cicero


Sigmund Freud (top)
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
- Sigmund Freud


Eric Hoffer (top)
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
- Eric Hoffer


Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes (top)
The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.
- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes


Horace (top)
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
- Horace


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (top)
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


Katherine Mansfield (top)
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


Franklin D. Roosevelt (top)
Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt


George Bernard Shaw (top)
All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
- George Bernard Shaw


Mark Twain (top)
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


Virginia Woolf (top)
The mind is the most capricious of insects - flitting, fluttering.
- Virginia Woolf