6,568 Quotes About Mind

  • Author Steven Pinker
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    Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

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  • Author Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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    Before you lost your mind, how did you make a living?" "I was a hitman for the Mafia. Are you done crying yet?" "I wasn't crying! And I wish you were a hitman because, if I had money, I'd hire you right this minute to knock yourself off.

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.

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  • Author William Penn
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    Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.

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  • Author Dan Quayle
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    What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

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