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Marquis de Condorcet

As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soo

Edward de Bono

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 organ

John Locke

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Michel de Montaigne

It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he forgot nothing of what he had done, read, or thought, in any part of his rational age. This is a privilege so little known to most men,

Hyman Rickover

Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thi

Chuang Tzu

(also widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

Wayne's World

Wayne Am I supposed to be a man, am I supposed to say, it's OK, I don't mind. I don't mind. Well I mind I mind big time And you know what the worst part is I NEVER LEARNED TO READ.

Muriel Spark

No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.

Thomas Jefferson

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.

Dan Quayle

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

J Danforth Quayle

What a waste it is to lose one's mind--or not to have a mind. How true that is.

Unknown

Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.

COWPER: _Retirement,_ Line 623.

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

Steven Wright

Sorry, my mind was wandering. One time my mind went all the wayto Venus on mail order and I couldn't pay for it.

Maitri Upanishads

When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind the highest End.

John Christian Bovee

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.

Shunryu Suzuki

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.

Samuel Johnson

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

Dale Dauten

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.

Edward Kennedy

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

Oswald Mosley

Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

John Keats

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

The Divine Pymander

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Edith Ann

They tell me I have got a mind of my own, but sometimes it's like my mind itself has its own mind.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent.

John Steinbeck

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in all the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea

Leroy Robert Satchel Paige

Age is a function of mind over matter if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jack Benny

Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Blaise Pascal

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Toni Morrison

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Florence Nightingale

Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body -- I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

Robert Oxton Bolt

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Dr. Seuss

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Eve	Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

Maitri Upanishads

The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.

Louis L'Amour

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

W. G. Benham

When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.

Theodore Roosevelt

All the resources we need are in the mind.

S Hayakawa

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to loose.

Fred Allen

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement

Fred Allen

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?

Miguel de Cervantes

Let every man mind his own business.

John Allston

If you don't control your mind, someone else will.

Charles Dickens

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Ronnie Lott

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Anacharsis Cloots

Bad mind, bad heart.

H Hahn Blavatsky

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

Mencius

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Margaret Mead

The mind is not sex-typed.

Seneca

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

Confucius

The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adaptin

In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almos

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.

Do I mind if you smoke? No. Do you mind if I FART?

"Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled." Spock

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.

...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of the

"Mind if I smoke?" "No. Mind if I burp pastrami belches in your face?"

"If messy desk = tidy mind, does clean desk = dirty mind?"

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don???t mind, it doesn???t matter.

"It's mind-sifter. Or a mind-ripper." Kor

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand

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.

"Do I mind if you smoke?" "Do you mind if I crap on your shoes?"

"Mind if I smoke?" "Mind if I burn plastic?"

"Mind if I smoke?" "Mind if I piss in your drink?"

"Do you mind if I smoke?" "Do you mind if I crap on you

"Mind if I smoke?"... "Mind if I piss on your leg?

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

"Mind if I smoke?"... "Mind if I fart?"

"Mind if I smoke?" "Mind if I throw up?"

Are you out of my mind?

With a mind like yours, who needs a body.

Law is mind without reason.

It is the mind that makes the man.

It's a state of mind.

Never mind the facts - I know what I know.

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

Imagery is All In The Mind.

Sorry... my mind has a few bad sectors.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Sex, Sex, Sex... the pleasure of having a 1 track mind.