6,568 Quotes About Mind

  • Author Elmar Hussein
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    You cannot teach one message to different people with different abilities to understand in the same way. That is why the inner diversity of deep philosophical consideration is inevitable. Each diverse modification of the same philosophical doctrine is intended for a group of people with similar abilities to understand.

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  • Author Paul Auster
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    The mind cannot win over matter, for once the mind is asked to do too much, it quickly shows itself to be matter as well.

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  • Author John Updike
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    It was not that her brain was less efficient than theirs, within its limits it was more so; but it was like the keyboard of an adding machine as opposed to that of typewriters.

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  • Author Grace Curley
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    Oscar squeezed his hand softly. 'Do we really need to know? Can we truly know? Perhaps this whirlwind we call our lives is too big and too vast to be known by our small minds? Perhaps our purpose is not to know, but to be okay with that, to be comfortable with not knowing, and still have the courage to love

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  • Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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    Such were the professor's words - rather let me say such the words of the fate - enounced to destroy me. As he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being; chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose.

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  • Author Leni Zumas
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    Shut up, she tells her monkey mind. Please shut up, you picker of nits, presser of bruises, counter of losses, fearer of failures, collector of grievances future and past.

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