Quotes with mind-set

Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 1624.

  • André Gide Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Florence King Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Albert Camus To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • John Tillotson To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Og Mandino To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • George Santayana To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • William Shakespeare To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Akhenaton To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • William Shakespeare To be, or not to be; that is the question;
    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
    Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
    And by opposing, end them.
    Source: Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Anatole France To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bonnie Hunt To have children on the set, you realize that if a 10-year-old can do it, who are you kidding? It humbles you.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Buddha To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Cary Fowler To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Boomer Esiason To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Brigid Brophy To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
    Brigid Brophy
    British novelist and critic (1929 - 1995)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Agnes Martin To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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