Quotes with mind-set

Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 1624.

• 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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• The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

  ― Erich Fromm
  German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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• 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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• 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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• The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

  ― Vikram Seth
  Indian poet and novelist (1952 - )
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• 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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• 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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• The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• 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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• 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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• The true poem is the poet's mind.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  ― Anne Cassidy
   
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• The truth will set you free - but first it may thoroughly irritate you.

  ― Susan Scott
  American self-help writer
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• 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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• The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

  ― Anthony Burgess
  British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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• 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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• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

  ― Antony Jay
  English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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• The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.

  ― John Foster Dulles
  American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• intelligibility
• self-conflict
• intelligible
• second-rate
• frustration
• unconscious

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