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“Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then...”
“An idea occurs in the mind, where it is confined and useless. An idea lives when it leaves the mind.”
“Inside the human mind, an idea is a mental spark that occurs as a response to the challenge of a train of thought.”
“People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.”
“Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.”
“Knowledge is the most beautiful manifestation of the human mind.”
“It used to be obvious that the world was designed by some sort of intelligence. What else could account for fire and rain and lightning and earthquakes? Above all, the wonderful abilities of living...”
“This was where she discovered that intelligence, this wonderful gift, grows in silence, not in noise. It was here too that she learnt that a human mind, a truly human mind, is nurtured over time, w...”
“Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.”
“Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.”
“It is extraordinary how the human mind sees what it anticipates and is blind to anything that could not be dreamed of.”
“Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.”
“... insanity is never reasonable.”
“An idea is an amazing creation of the human mind, which comes either asa result of one's continuous endeavors for solving a certain problem or justas a spark that lights up the considered problem.”
“A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the bodys normal response to fear, stress or excitement.”
“Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well as of insight is exceptional, utterly unique as far as we know, properly an...”
“A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body’s normal response to fear, stress or excitement.”