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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

—Aristotle
Every One speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of of his own mind.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

—Eleanor Roosevelt
The mind justifies what the heart has chosen.

—Unknown
“This view is the same as that, and that view is the same as this. But that view involves both a right and a wrong; this view involves also a right and a wrong. Are there or are there not the two views that and this? They have not found their point of correspondency that is called the pivot of the Tao. As soon as one finds this pivot, he stands in the center of ring of thought where he can correspond without end to the changing views, without end to those affirming and without end to those denying. Therefore I said ‘There is nothing like the proper light of mind’. “

—Chuang Tzu
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form.

—Albert Einstein
The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

—Djuna Barnes
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill, and fortitude of the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

—Unknown
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

—Charles Darwin
I believe in time,
matter, and energy,
which make up the whole of the world.

I believe in reason, evidence and the human mind,
the only tools we have;
they are the product of natural forces
in a majestic but impersonal universe,

—PZ Myers
Tao becomes obscured through the small comprehension of the mind, and speech through the vaingloriousness of the speaker."

—Chuang Tzu
When a government takes over a people's economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs.

—Maxwell Anderson
Poetry is not a certain this or a certain that. With or without rhyme. Beat or academic. Uplifting or depressing. Accessible or obscure. Poetry is all. At its heart, simply, a condensed form. Free to violate the strict rules of prose. Free to explore the subterranean passage of mind and soul. We must allow it to be whatever it needs to be. Only then will we realize the vitality of its song.

—Laurence Overmire
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

—Walt Disney
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

—Arthur Schopenhauer
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

—John Milton
The hardest thing to understand is the limits of our minds. We will never be able to imagine certain things just because our brain isn't physically capable of it.

—Dr. Mikael Aunom
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

—Anthony de Mello
Some atheists are so strongly anti God, it's as if some part of them is absolutely certain that he exists.

—Alex Reda
There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling--absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

—Dan Barker

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