Quotes with mind-bending

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  • Lord Chesterfield A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Oliver Herford A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • Eugène Ionesco A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Bayard Taylor Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • William Cowper Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Aldous Huxley After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Virgil Age carries all things away, even the mind.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Charles Baudelaire All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Alan Cohen All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Bob Ney All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Beatrix Potter All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Aristotle All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ruth Ross All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
    Ruth Ross
    New Zealand historian (1920 - )
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  • Robert Collier All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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