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"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
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"The mind is an instrument made up of universal consciousness, egocentric consciousness, societal consciousness, along with education, values, virtues, judgment and wisdom."

"If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction."

"When you say to someone "follow your heart, it actually refers to the rhetorical representation of various emotions, that are precisely produced from neural activity of the limbic system. So, the metaphoric heart we always boast about while giving advice to our friends, is actually not anywhere near the biological organ known as heart. Rather it too, like all other elements of the human mind exists only in the brain."

"All endeavors, heroic or monstrous, scientific or philosophical, rise from the electrochemical functioning of the mind, that takes place relentlessly in the little specks of protoplasm inside the head. These specks of jelly inside the brain, known as the neurons, determine our identity, personality and everything that we are."

"People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember."

"Thoughts are supreme. It is driving the car we call life. So to reach the deserved destination think right."

"Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!"
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"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."

"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."

"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"

"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."

"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."

"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery."
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