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Mind Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
- The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
- Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the…
- Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust…
- Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.
- Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
- One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.
- Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
- The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
- Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at…
- Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
- A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle