Quotes with mind-bending

Quotes 961 till 980 of 1239.

  • Milan Kundera The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Allen Klein The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Edward Gibbon The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Thomas Troward The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Bernard Beckett The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Walter Lippmann The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  •  Vikram Seth The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian poet and novelist (1952 - )
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • A. A. Milne The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Elizabeth Drew The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ''mangled mind'' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Ralph J. Cudworth The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
    Ralph J. Cudworth
    English clergyman
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The true poem is the poet's mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Anne Cassidy The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.
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  • Eliza Farnham The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Anthony Burgess The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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