#mind

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

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Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. ↗

— Washington Irving

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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. ↗

— Washington Irving

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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. ↗

— Washington Irving

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