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"All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct."
"If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf"
"For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?"
"...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind."
"How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds."
"To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind."
"Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind."
"The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out."
"The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with."
"It would probably astound each of them beyond measure to be let into his neighbor's mind and to find how different the scenery there was from that in his own."
"Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory."
"Abraham Lincoln had a deep realism; he did not deceive or mislead himself, but faced the world he had to deal with as it really is. At the same time, he had a striking moral intelligence, and a confidence in the working of his own mind and conscience."
"Abraham Lincoln had great clarity of mind and expression, and he worked to make it clearer -reading Euclid in his early 30s to train his mind."
"We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself."
"The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments."
"Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes."
"Hate pollutes the mind."
"When the mind's free, The Body's delicate."
"There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand."
"Love sees with the heart and not with mind."
