"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."
~~~~~ Chauncey Depew
Showing posts with label mind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mind. Show all posts
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Thought for Today
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Thought for Today
"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
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Thought for Today
"Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired."
~~~~~ Delphine de Girardin
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Thought for Today
"Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the thinking few!
How many never think, who think they do!"
~~~~~ Jane Taylor
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Thought for Today
"Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can."
~~~~~ William Feather
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Thought for Today
"Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit."
~~~~~ Helena Rubinstein
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Thought for Today
"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully."
~~~~~ Victor Cherbuliez
Monday, April 7, 2014
Thought for Today
"The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this."
~~~~~ William Wordsworth
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Thought for Today
"By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."
~~~~~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
Friday, December 27, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Thought for Today
"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear."
~~~~~ Bernard Law Montgomery
Monday, September 23, 2013
Thought for Today
"Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!"
~~~~~ Jane Taylor
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Thought for Today
"A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor."
~~~~~ William Wordsworth
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Thought for Today
"It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched."
~~~~~ George Gissing
Monday, March 7, 2011
Thought for Today
"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind."
~~~~~ Lewis Thomas
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