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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than closed by belief.

—Gerry Spence
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians ever imagine that they are guilty themselves....The essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastely, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.…As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

—C. S. Lewis
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
“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
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
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

—William James
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

—Rene Descartes
Space and time are not conditions in which we live; they are simply modes in which we think.

—Albert Einstein
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
You don’t know about betrayal until your own mind lets you down

—Zelda Fitzgerald
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
A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

—James Allen (1902)
Some among Bush's trusted White House staff fear what they are seeing and where Bush is taking us. His state of mind hauntingly reminds them of Richard Nixon's Final Days. They fear Bush is becoming Nixonesque . . . or worse. Although Bush lacks Nixon's paranoia, he may entertain even more dangerous notions.

—Mike Hersh
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it's not open.

—Frank Zappa
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

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

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

—Emily Bronte
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

—Hazlitt
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

—Elbert Hubbard

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