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His Mind Quotes by Ayn Rand
- The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
- A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or…
- The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality.…
- Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the…
- John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of…
- Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had…
- He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.
- In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code…
- There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his…
- Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is…
- I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours…
- An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.
- He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he…
- Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness,…
More His Mind Quotes
- Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved… — Nikola Tesla
- Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do. — Erykah Badu
- Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other… — E. H. Harriman
- The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens… — Alfred Armand Montapert
- A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way… — Winston Churchill
- As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the… — Stephen King
- The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal… — Honore de Balzac
- The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer… — Pearl S. Buck