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Mind Quotes


"If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it."


"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."


"We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good soldier you put it back together with your eyes closed except of course the whole thing is wrong."


"In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind."
Mind,


"It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness."


"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."


"And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind."


"My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished."


"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
Mind,


"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."


"The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will."


"The mind is time bound however, the subconscious mind is universal consciousness and is timeless."


"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."



"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."
Mind,


"I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind."


"Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good."


"I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say."


"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have."
Mind,


"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."


"It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus."


"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."
Mind,


"I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind."
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