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Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
Jacob Bronowski
Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.
Proverb
Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
George Bernard Shaw
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
Aesop
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett
Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
Philo
It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.
Maureen Phillips
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
Pearl Buck
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
Aneurin Bevan
Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.
John Steinbeck
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth.
Leo Tolstoy
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. O, Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go, But heed the warning words the sage hath said: A woman absent is a woman dead.
Ambrose Bierce
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.
Orson Scott Card
It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it.
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mahatma Gandhi
There's no pleasure i' living if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.
George Eliot
