Two Minds Quotes

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Two heads are better than one.

  Unknown

  Teamwork, Educational, Kissing

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

  Daniel Goleman

  Inspirational, Real, Thinking

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.38, Bantam

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• No two minds ever come together without a third invisible force, which may be likened to a 'third mind.' When a group of individual minds are coordinated and function in harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance becomes available to every individual in the group.

  Napoleon Hill

  Two, Mind, Together

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• When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.

  Hollis Frampton

  Two, Mind, Seems

  Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (2009). “On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton”, p.48, MIT Press

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• Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Ideas, Two, Long

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.846, e-artnow

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• Love is two minds without a single thought.

  Philip Barry

  Being Single, Love Is, Two

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• In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Passion, Men, Reflection

  Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.93, Vintage

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• The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

  Confucius

  Life, Wisdom, Men

  Confucius (1986). “The Analects”, Hippocrene Books

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• They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Opposites, Two

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.208, Random House

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• A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.

  David Mamet

  Play, Two, Uber

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• No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind

  Napoleon Hill

  Two, Creating, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.148, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of its transitions. Before one of them is half through a sentence the other knows his meaning and replies. ... His mental lungs breathe more deeply, in an atmosphere more broad and vast.

  William James

  Science, Order, Two

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• Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.

  William J. Clinton

  Kings, Government, Years

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P.Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• A medium is a bridge between two minds.

  Scott McCloud

  Bridges, Two, Mind

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• I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.

  Frank Gehry

  Sports, Play, Two

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Two, Mind

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• An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Games, Two, Mind

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• Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

  Vernor Vinge

  Two, Evil, Broken

  Vernor Vinge, Maureen F. McHugh (1993). “The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh”

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• I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

  Alan Bradley

  Self, Two, Laughing

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.488, Delacorte Press

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• Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in Sherlock's situations. As a writer, you have to be of two minds.

  Patti Smith

  Order, Two, Mind

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

  John Ortberg

  Blessing, Two, Mind

  John Ortberg (2010). “Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)”, p.147, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

  Khalil Gibran

  Cutting, Two, Mind

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Two, Mind, Legs

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.85, Graphic Arts Books

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• As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Book, Two, Mind

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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