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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

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.” 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

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

“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

“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

“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

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.” Anatole France, “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard” - 1881

“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

“The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who,...” René Descartes, “Discourse on the Method” - 1637

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667

“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

“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“Go mindless. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” Oprah Winfrey, “What I Know For Sure” - 2014

“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

“My mind . . . rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Sign of the Four” - 1890

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” - 1841

“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon.” Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” - 1943

“When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved” Mark Twain, “The Prince and the Pauper” - 1881

“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.” James Joyce, “Ulysses” - 1922

“Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart–and I have all of those things–aren't taken away, but grow! Increase with the years!” Tennessee Williams, “A Streetcar Named Desire” - 1947

“The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“Words are the litmus paper of the mind.” Terry Pratchett, “Small Gods” - 1992

“Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it'll begin to give you an idea what size mind you have.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“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

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

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