Confucius Quotes, Order Quotes, Mind Quotes

In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.

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The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

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It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

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We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. ... Religions go, "Nonsense. You need to keep repeating the lesson 10 times a day. So get on your knees and repeat it." That's what all religions tell us: "Get on your knees and repeat it 10 or 20 or 15 times a day." Otherwise our minds are like sieves.

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Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.

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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

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Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.

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To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

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The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

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Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

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The forehead is the gate of the mind.

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Knowledge is the life of the mind.

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Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

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