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I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind
Thomas Jefferson
The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.
Gay Hendricks
A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.
Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.
George W. Crane
There's nobody out there. It's all in here.
Mal Pancoast
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
Kareem AbdulJabbar
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events,small minds discuss people.(also widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt)
Hyman Rickover, The World of the
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.ISBN 0140137793 Copyright
Edward De Bono, Lateral Thinking
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton
We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.
Aldous Huxley
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain
The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
Terry Riley
Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.
Terry Pratchett
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.
Jodi Picoult
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
