F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Mind Quotes

i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

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Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich

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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

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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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The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

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Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

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When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

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Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

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As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood.

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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

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The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

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Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

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