Own Mind Quotes
402 Own Mind quotes by 292 unique authors
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Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a…
— Hugo Hamilton
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I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
— Muriel Barbery
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Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.
— Henry Adams
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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
— Swami Vivekananda
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If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing…
— Orson Scott Card
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Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
— Bruce Lee
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It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous…
— William S. Burroughs
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I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even…
— Louis C. K.
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My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go…
— Taylor Swift
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Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help with…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
— George Orwell
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How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his…
— Jonah Lehrer
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My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The monster behind the wall stirred. I'd come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of…
— Dan Wells
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That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were,…
— Walter Mosley
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A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting…
— Napoleon Hill
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Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was…
— George Orwell
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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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To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.
— Paul Valery
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It is terrifying,” said Adrian. “And weird, for lack of a better word. And part of you knows… well, part of you knows something’s not…
— Richelle Mead
Who Wrote These Own Mind Quotes
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