Our Minds Quotes
908 Our Minds quotes by 670 unique authors
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Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom,…
— Milton Friedman
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As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate…
— T.D. Jakes
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The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them.…
— Augusten Burroughs
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What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for…
— Steve Jobs
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Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going…
— Timothy Leary
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.…
— Adrienne Rich
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[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It…
— Amitav Ghosh
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We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. "How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?
— Suzanne Collins
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We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we…
— Anne Rice
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Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.
— Cassandra Clare
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We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.
— Jeff Noon
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We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.
— David Levithan
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Let's get this started, people. It won't be long before we all lose our minds.
— James Dashner
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But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since…
— Haruki Murakami
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Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity…
— Walter Mosley
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As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them…
— Alexander Gordon Smith
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The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be…
— Anna Funder
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The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them…
— William Kent Krueger
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let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that...…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this…
— Nikola Tesla
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Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we…
— Dan Brown
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Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
— Federico Fellini
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
— Charles de Lint
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There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually…
— Don DeLillo
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have…
— John Maynard Keynes
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