Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Mind Quotes, Causes Quotes

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

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A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

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Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

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In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

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In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

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Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

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My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

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"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.

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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

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It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

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For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

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Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.

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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

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First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.

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