Psychology Quotes by Thomas Paine

My mind is my own church.

— Thomas Paine

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

— Thomas Paine

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

— Thomas Paine

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind…he trades with the same…

— Thomas Paine

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

— Thomas Paine

“For what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise…

— Thomas Paine

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of…

— Thomas Paine

“Yet panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind…

— Thomas Paine

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of…

— Thomas Paine

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue…

— Thomas Paine

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe,…

— Thomas Paine

“The genuine mind of man, thirsting for its native home, society, contemns the gewgaws that separate him from it. Titles are like…

— Thomas Paine

“The strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is…

— Thomas Paine

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights,…

— Thomas Paine

To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith…

— Thomas Paine

The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any…

— Thomas Paine

“love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business…

— Thomas Paine

“Of all the innocent passions which actuate the human mind there is none more universally prevalent than curiosity. It reaches all mankind,…

— Thomas Paine

Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon…

— Thomas Paine

“The natural rights which he retains are all those in which the Power to execute is as perfect in the individual as…

— Thomas Paine

“It frequently happens that in proportion as we are taught to dislike persons and countries, not knowing why, we feel an ardor…

— Thomas Paine

“Ignorance is of a peculiar nature: once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself,…

— Thomas Paine

“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation,…

— Thomas Paine

“While the Declaration of Rights was before the National Assembly some of its members remarked that if a declaration of rights were…

— Thomas Paine

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their…

— Thomas Paine

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their…

— Thomas Paine

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

— Thomas Paine

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When…

— Thomas Paine

Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray,…

— Thomas Paine