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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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Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful read more

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.

by Lydia H. Sigourney 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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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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Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

by Einstein Albert Found in: Mind Quotes,
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

by Douglas Adams Found in: Mind Quotes,
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach read more

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

by Henry Ward Beecher 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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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Mind Quotes,
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