Own Mind Quotes
402 Own Mind quotes by 292 unique authors
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
— Zig Ziglar
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Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always…
— William James
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Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of…
— Bertrand Russell
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He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t…
— Frank McCourt
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At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept…
— Jodi Picoult
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The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in…
— Khalil Gibran
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DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what…
— Bob Dylan
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
— James A. Baldwin
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.
— Ayn Rand
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
— George Washington
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As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point…
— Alessandro Baricco
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If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.
— Cormac McCarthy
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I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have…
— John Taylor Gatto
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Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
— Amy Tan
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At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that…
— Andy Warhol
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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by…
— Thomas Paine
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Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.
— Marc Levy
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I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth…
— Anne Lamott
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as…
— Anne Sexton
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... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as…
— Mortimer Adler
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I've never thought of you like that,' said Christopher. 'How could I? If you were any other woman, I could tell you I loved you,…
— Elizabeth Marie Pope
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