6,568 Quotes About Mind

  • Author William Wilberforce
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    So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.

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  • Author Gao Xingjian
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    When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

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  • Author Bellamy Young
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    If I could have anyone's mind for a day, I really can't think of anyone other than Einstein.

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  • Author Brigham Young
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    Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

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  • Author Joshua Young
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    At times, you don't think you are going to be able to do it. But if you do what you are supposed to do and keep your mind on focus, you'll get a whole lot out of it.

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  • Author Marguerite Yourcenar
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    In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.

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