Clearing Quote by Thomas Huxley

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect…

— Lord Acton

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render…

— Arthur Helps

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

— Michel de Montaigne

All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation…

— Blaise Pascal

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

— Isaac Watts

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

— John Stuart Mill

Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with…

— Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

— Epictetus

A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish…

— Morihei Ueshiba

The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form…

— David Icke

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.

— Swami Vivekananda