mind Quotes

“I believe that faith is a precursor of all our ideas. Without faith, there never could have evolved hypothesis, theory, science or mathematics. I believe that faith is an extension of the mind. It is the key that negates the impossible. To deny...”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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“Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honour peereth in the meanest habit.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

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“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“My mind . . . rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

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“When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved”

― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

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“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“She has man's brain, a brain that a man should have were he much gifted, and a woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good combination.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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“Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart–and I have all of those things–aren't taken away, but grow! Increase with the years!”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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