#mind

How great in number are the little minded men. ↗

— Plautus

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. ↗

— John Dos Passos

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Chance favors the prepared mind. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

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I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too. ↗

— James Patterson

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I have been lucky, of course. Like, last year, if I went out, I'd have to fight to chat someone up. This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I'm really sexy. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

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