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Mind Quotes - Page 177

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

Kate Atkinson (2010). “Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.34, Random House

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Julian Jaynes (1990). “The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.560

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.

John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

John Ford (1985). “The Lover's Melancholy”, p.97, Manchester University Press

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

"Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Intellectuals". Book by David Olsen, Michelle Bevilacqua (p. 67), October 15, 2011.

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.

James Laver (1969). “Modesty in Dress: An Inquiry Into the Fundamentals of Fashion”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.

James Carville (2003). “Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back”, p.16, Simon and Schuster