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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
TIME is poisonous construct of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
The Answers of Spirit are far more powerful
than the Questions of our small minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
TIME is yet another poisonous construct
of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
How does so much gossip fit in such small minds?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life cannot be lived fully or joyfully if
our thoughts are focused on regretting the past,
preoccupied with anticipating the future,
or lost in the mind-fog of unconscious habitual behavior.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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