A mind that is stretched by a new experience
by Oliver Wendell Holmes

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Related topics: Wisdom Inspirational

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller

Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw

You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox

There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb

Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers

Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey

If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand

Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams

You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay

Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie