Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 13
Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!
Gloria Reuben
A mistake is simply another way of doing things
Katharine Graham
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things
The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy to evaluate actions and experiences according to the subjective emotions with which they are associated.
Louis J. Halle
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.
Oliver Sacks
Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.
Penelope Leach
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
When I say I'm instinctive [in writing], I do feel like I need to hide what I'm doing from myself. My mind just needs to be able to operate untrammeled.
Brian Evenson
The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.
John Harvey-Jones
A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of
leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.
Will Cuppy
