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    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.

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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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My minde to me a kingdome is,
Such perfect joy therein I finde
As farre exceeds all read more

My minde to me a kingdome is,
Such perfect joy therein I finde
As farre exceeds all earthly blisse
That God or Nature hath assignde
Though much I want that most would have
Yet still my minde forbids to crave.

by William Byrd (bird) 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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

by Christian Nestell Bovee Found in: Mind Quotes,
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The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much read more

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

by Albert Jay Nock Found in: Mind Quotes,
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I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

by Mark Twain Found in: Mind Quotes,
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'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle,
Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.

'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle,
Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.

by George Gordon Noel Byron Found in: Mind Quotes,
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How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight,
The tempest read more

How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight,
The tempest itself lags behind,
And the swift-winged arrows of light.

by William Cowper 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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