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A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
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To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
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Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
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A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
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