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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Lucretius The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
    Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Thornton T. Munger The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • Jacob Bronowski The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Adam Weishaupt The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Caroline Knapp The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Blaise Pascal The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
    Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
    French naturalist and mathematician
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  • William Wordsworth The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Evelyn Waugh The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • George Santayana The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • John F. Kennedy The human mind is our fundamental resource.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Sir Peter Medawar The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
    Sir Peter Medawar
    British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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