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Mind Quotes by Mark Twain
- After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage…
- An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
- It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the…
- In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
- Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
- There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
- The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.
- If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement…
- Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have…
- The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.
- Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the…
- 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 to eat. The…
- The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression…
- I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed…
- I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
- The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.
- Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change…
- The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter...
- [N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law…
- The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to…
More Mind Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- I've known you long enough to know you try not to let your feelings show. Lately when I hold you near, I… — Superman
- Why can't I just tell you how I feel? That you're constantly on my mind...that I'm crazy about you. Maybe it's because… — Superman
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello