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Psychology Quotes by Mark Twain

61 Psychology quotes by Mark Twain

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Mark Twain observes that our mind decides how happy we feel, and that troubles are often just mental creations that can be dismissed. He notes that persuasive speech can cloud our thoughts, and he reflects on how memories soften over time. These ideas show how perception shapes our experience.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”

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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

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Definite speech means clarity of mind.

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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

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“The governor had made up his mind to one thing: Joan was either a witch or a saint, and he meant to…

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole…

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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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“Your country and mine is an interesting one, but there is nothing there that is half so interesting as the human mind.”

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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the…

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My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded…

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Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins.…

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Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the…

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“The reign of Edward VI was a singularly merciful one for those harsh times. Now that we are taking leave of him…

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After a few months' acquaintance with Europeancoffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the…

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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something…

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional…

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The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to…

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It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just…

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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material…

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“A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to…

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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will…

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“You think you are reading proof, whereas you are merely reading your own mind; your statement of the thing is full of…

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The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and…

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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger,…

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“It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being…

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“It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being…

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“In the common walks of life, with what delightful emotions does the youthful mind look forward to some anticipated scene of festivity!…

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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

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There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly…

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

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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…

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“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”

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There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

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The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.