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“To a great mind, nothing is little” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” Plato, “The Republic”

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” - 1858

“An education which does not cultivate the will, is an education that depraves the mind.” Anatole France, “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard” - 1881

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” - 1997

“Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.” Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” - 1870

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” - 1858

“Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.” René Descartes, “Discourse on the Method” - 1637

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“A conditioned mind is never a free mind.” Bruce Lee, “Tao of Jeet Kune Do” - 1975

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” - 2007

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“Your worst enemy . . . was your own nervous system.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“All things are ready, if our minds be so.” William Shakespeare, “Henry V” - 1600

“It is not easy to become sane.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.” Mark Twain, “The Innocents Abroad” - 1869

“You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honour peereth in the meanest habit.” William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew” - 1623

“Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind, that man might ne'er be wretched for his mind.” William Shakespeare, “Timon of Athens” - 1623

“How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!” Charles Dickens, “Oliver Twist” - 1838

“I have always believed that exercise is not only a key to physical health but to peace of mind.” Nelson Mandela, “Long Walk to Freedom” - 1995

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” - 1841

“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” - 1841

“That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“She has man's brain, a brain that a man should have were he much gifted, and a woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good combination.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.” Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” - 1791

“True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” Plato, “The Republic”

“Then beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity,—I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only an euphemism for folly?” Plato, “The Republic”

“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” - 1850

“Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly, so that there could be no mistaking it.” Ulysses S. Grant, “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant” - 1885

“If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.” Jerome K. Jerome, “Three Men in a Boat” - 1889

“And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another.” Jerome K. Jerome, “Three Men in a Boat” - 1889

“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.” W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage” - 1915

“In Tarzan's clever little mind many thoughts revolved, and back of these was his divine power of reason. If he could catch his fellow apes with his long arm of many grasses, why not Sabor, the lioness?” Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes” - 1912

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