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The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
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When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Heroism on command, senseless violence,
and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -
how passionately I hate them!
- Albert Einstein
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
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 eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
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
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
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 human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
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
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- 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
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
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
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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