Our Own Minds Quotes
57 quotes by 51 authors
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In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
— David Blaine
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All the great masters in the world have been saying only one thing down the centuries, "Have your own mind and have your own individuality.…
— Rajneesh
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Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds…
— Mark Epstein
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the…
— William Hazlitt
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I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.
— J. G. Ballard
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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves…
— Barack Obama
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We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and the overcoming of…
— Noah Levine
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I...am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light...in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.
— Bill Hicks
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There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and…
— Donald Davidson
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How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is no appeal. We…
— David van Dantzig
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We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But…
— Nhat Hanh
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It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a…
— Wayne Coyne
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Many successful people have fear, along with doubts and worries. The difference is that those who know how to succeed also know how to take…
— T. Harv Eker
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Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
— Helen Keller
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