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CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose Bierce
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Abraham Lincoln
You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.
Orson Scott Card
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Thomas Jefferson
Our soul's perfection is our life's purpose; any other purpose, keeping death in mind, has no substance.
Leo Tolstoy
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.
Andrew Carnegie
These tenses--past, present and future--are not the tenses of time; they are tenses of the mind. That which is no longer before the mind becomes the past. That which is before the mind is the present. And that which is going to be before the mind is the future. Past is that which is no longer before you. Future is that which is not yet before you. And present is that which is before you and is slipping out of your sight. Soon it will be past....
Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain], The G
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
Jane Austen
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
Stephen King
There shall be no slavery of the mind.
Victor Hugo
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
Plato
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.
Albert Einstein
This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.
Maxwell Maltz
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
Euripides
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Napoleon Hill
