Quotes with mind-bending

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1239.

  • Alfred Russel Wallace There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Mark Twain There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Charles F. Kettering There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Bo Burnham There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Cate Blanchett There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Marcel Proust There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Elmore Leonard There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.
    Out of Sight (1996)
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • Bjork There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Claude M. Bristol These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.
    Claude M. Bristol
    American writer
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • David Hume They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind; nor have we the most distant notion of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos’d
    A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Anthony Trollope They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Napoleon Hill Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Maxwell Maltz This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • John Milton Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Lucretius Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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