Alain de Botton Quotes, Believe Quotes, Mind Quotes

We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. ... Religions go, "Nonsense. You need to keep repeating the lesson 10 times a day. So get on your knees and repeat it." That's what all religions tell us: "Get on your knees and repeat it 10 or 20 or 15 times a day." Otherwise our minds are like sieves.

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Knowledge is the life of the mind.

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He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

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Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

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We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make - it would hope - put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see.

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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.

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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

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Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

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I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

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In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

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Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

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As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly."

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So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

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Would the cook were o' my mind!

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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

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Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.

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You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

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