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See, the human mind is kind of like ... a pinata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the pinata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.
[The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe]

- Jane Wagner

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

- William Wordsworth

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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

- Rene Descartes

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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

- Richard Courant

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New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works ... images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models -- surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works -- promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.

- Peter Senge

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Instinct is the nose of the mind.

- Madame De Girardin

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I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

- Katherine Anne Porter

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Intuition and concepts constitute ... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

- Immanuel Kant

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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

- Albert Einstein

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Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

- John Harricharan

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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

- Margaret Fuller

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greek said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought."

- Edith Hamilton

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Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.

- John A. Hutchinson

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Logicians have but ill defined
As rational the human mind.
Logic, they say, belongs to man,
But let them prove it if they can.

- Oliver Goldsmith

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