Criminal Mind Quotes - Page 5

• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical

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• The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspirational, Wise, Memories

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.14, Counterpoint Press

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• The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Happiness, Reality

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.

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• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Fear, Cancer

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• Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

  Albert Einstein

  Humorous, Men, Enemy

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• Names are not always what they seem.

  Mark Twain

  Names, Labyrinth, Open Mind

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.317, Courier Corporation

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• Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Insane, Riddle

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: And Other Stories”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

  Anthony Brandt

  Change, Family, Grandparent

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• There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

  Voltaire

  Political, Purpose

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• The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

  Voltaire

  Dream, Men, Reality

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• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

  Andre Maurois

  Inspirational, Family, Men

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• Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Badass, Anger

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

  W. H. Auden

  Evil, Bed, Tables

  "Herman Melville" l. 17 (1939)

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  The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Men, Evil People

  Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 4 (1911)

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• Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Lying, Animal

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• Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

  Thomas Fuller

  Play, Foxes

  "Fictional character: Jason Gideon". "Criminal Minds". Season 1, Episode 7: "The Fox", www.imdb.com. November 09, 2005.

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.

  Jacques Rigaut

  Mirrors, Roles, Looks

  Jacques Rigaut (1993). “Lord Patchogue & Other Texts”

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• When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

  Euripides

  Hurt, Character, Men

  Euripides, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald (1936). “The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version”

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• The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

  Carl Jung

  Health, Thoughtful, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The Symbolic life”

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• A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

  Robert Bolt

  Believe, Ideas, Mind

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