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Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.

Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.

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The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Mind Quotes,
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

by Marcus Fabius Quintilian Found in: Mind Quotes,
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I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that read more

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

by James Thurber Found in: Mind Quotes,
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Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

by Robert Browning Found in: Mind Quotes,
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I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud
and the Alcoran, than that this read more

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud
and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a
mind.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Mind Quotes,
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

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Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate

by Alexandre Dumas Pere Found in: Mind Quotes,
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all
those bodies which compose the mighty frame read more

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all
those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world--have
not any subsistence without a mind.

by Bishop George Berkeley Found in: Mind Quotes,
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