“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind”
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“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind”
“The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”
“It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while”
“Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think”
“If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold”
“Children use the fist until they are of the age to use the brain”
“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good”
“Better to be without logic than without feeling”
“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work”
“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself”
“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration”
“As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search: You'll find what you desire”
“Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also”
“A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably”
“Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth”
“Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty”
“To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else”
“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think ”
“It is the mind that makes the body rich”
“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled”