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- I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture.
- Sidney Madwed
- In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
- Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
- The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
- Fontenelle
- Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.
- George A. Dorsey
- Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
- C. C. Colton
- I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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