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"Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis."
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"A mind grows by what it feeds on."
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"The mind of a baby is a tabula rasa, society writes information on his mind."
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"Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows."
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"Thoughts have no barrier."
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"My mind is an instrument of peaceI am the peaceMy heart sing the song of peaceMy mind dances with peaceI laugh with peaceMy soul is longing for peaceMy spirit is the source of peace."
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"When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing."
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"A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice."
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"The Brain is a chewed gum."
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"Thoughts are the imagination of the conscious mind and dreams are the imagination of the subconscious mind."
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"When the whirlpool of thoughts is going on; that is known as the mind. At that time, the mind is functioning independently. That and the vrutis (tendencies of the chit) have no relationship. The tendencies arise later on, and then they go back and forth."
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"Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis."
Mind
"So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out."
Experience
"Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts."
Truth
"Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses."
History
"I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer."
Nothing
"Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything."
Time
"With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction."
Life
"Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history."
History
"The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind."
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"Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get."
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