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. . . MIND (THE) [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: ABSENTMINDED BELIEF BRAIN (THE) CHANGING (ONE'S MIND) COMMON SENSE CONFUSION CONSCIENCE COUNSELLING DEPRESSION DREAMS EMOTIONS FANTASY FORGETFULNESS GENIUS HYPNOTISM, HYPOCHONDRIA IDEAS, IDIOTS IGNORANCE IMAGINATION INSANITY INTELLIGENCE INTUITION KNOWLEDGE LEARNING LOGIC MAD(NESS) MEMORY MENTAL ILLNESS, MENTAL TELEPATHY MORALE MIND CONTROL, MIND READING (below) NEUROSIS OBJECTIVITY OPEN-MINDED OPINION OPTIMISM PARANOIA PERCEPTION PESSIMISM POSITIVE ATTITUDE PROPAGANDA PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHICS REASON SPEECH SPIRIT STUPIDITY SUPERSTITION THINKING WISDOM Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. Quoted in Joseph Collins _The Way with the Nerves: Letters to a Neurologist..._, p. 30 [1911]. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. --attributed to Aristotle (384322 B.C.) Greek philosopher. The firefly only shines when on the wing; so is it with the mind; when once we rest, we darken. --Philip James Bailey (18161902) English poet. _Festus_ [1839] The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. --Steve Biko (19461977) South African anti-apartheid campaigner. "White Racism and Black Consciousness" (presentation) Cape Town, South Africa [January 1971] Few minds wear out; more rust out. --Christian Nestell Bovee (18201904) American writer. _Intuitions and Summaries of Thought_, vol. 1 [1862] The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. --Buddha [Gautama] (c. 6th4th century B.C.) Founder of Buddhism. Attributed in _The Teaching of Buddha (the Buddhist Bible)_ [1934]. The elevation of the mind ought to be the principal end of all our studies. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. _A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful_ [1756] Cursed is he that does not know when to shut his mind. An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or may be found a little draughty. --Samuel Butler (18351902) English novelist, essayist, and critic. _The Note-Books of Samuel Butler_, ed. Henry Festing Jones [1907], "Falsehood" - Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. Attributed in Adam Woolιver (comp.) _Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor_, p. 279 [4th ed. 1881]. As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.) Roman orator and statesman. In Jehiel Keeler Hoyt & Anna Lydia Ward _The Cyclopζdia of Practical Quotations_, p. 3 [1882]. - Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow. --George Clinton (b. 1941) American rhythm and blues musician. Title of 1971 song. No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. _Table Talk_ [1835] In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. --Renι Descartes (15961650) French philosopher and mathematician. Attributed in Claude-Adrien Helvιtius _De l'esprit; or, Essays on the Mind_ [1807 ed.]. Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open. --Thomas Robert Dewar (18641930) Scottish distiller. Quoted in Evan Esar _The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations_ [1949]. Of all the tyrannies on human kind, The worst is that which persecutes the mind. --John Dryden (16311700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. _The Hind and the Panther_, pt. 1, l. 239 [1687] Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate. --Alexandre Dumas (18021870) French novelist and dramatist. _My Memoirs_, vol. 3 [6 vols., 1908 ed.] Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist. Communication of March 19, 1940 to Morris Raphael Cohen, as quoted in Otto Nathan & Heinz Norden (eds.) _Einstein on Peace_ [1968]. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. --attributed to Henry Ford (18631947) American car manufacturer. - Anyone who has at any time had occasion to enquire from the literature of aesthetics and psychology what light can be thrown on the nature of jokes and on the the position they occupy will probably have to admit that jokes have not received nearly as much philosophical consideration in view of the part they play in our mental health. --Sigmund Freud (18561939) Austrian psychiatrist. _Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious [1905] Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man. --Sigmund Freud (18561939) Austrian psychiatrist. Quoted in _New York Times Magazine_ [6 May 1956]. - Great minds think alike. --"Godey's Lady Book and Magazine" [April 1856] A library is a repository of medicine for the mind. --Greek proverb The deadliest of poisons cannot be analyzed in any laboratory, for they are in the mind. --in Raquella Berto-Anirul, _The Biology of the Soul_, chapter epigraph, written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, attributed to a character in _Dune: The Battle of Corrin_. - It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 217 [15th ed. 1894]. - Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety. --Joseph Joubert (17541824) French philosopher. _Recueil des pensιes de M. Joubert_ ("Collected Thoughts of Mr. Joubert") [1838] The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. --John Keats (17951821) English poet. Letter to George Keats [September 1819]. - Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [166578], #375 (Wikiquote) Gravity is a mystery of the body invented to conceal the defects of the mind. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld_ [William Gowans, New York, 1851], #269 - The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, are those of the mind. --Sir Roger L'Estrange (16161704) English journalist and pamphleteer. Quoted in _Encyclopaedia Perthensis_ [1816 ed.]. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _The Moon and Sixpence_, ch. 17 [1919] The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. --John Milton (16081674) English poet. "Paradise Lost" [1667] - [Winston Smith] was walking down the white-tiled corridor, with the feeling of walking in sunlight, and an armed guard at his back. The long-hoped- for bullet was entering his brain. He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark mustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self- willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (19031950) English novelist. _Nineteen Eighty-Four_, ch. 3, sec. VI [1949] - Too much and too little education hinder the mind. --Blaise Pascal (16231662) French mathematician, physicist, and moralist. _Pensιes_ ("Thoughts"), sec. II, # 72 [1670] The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may better return to thought, and to itself. --Gaius Julius Phaedrus (c. 15 B.C. c. 50 A.D.) The versifier of Aesop's Fables in Latin. Attributed in Henry Southgate _Things a Lady Would Like to Know Concerning Domestic Management_ [1875]. For the mind requires not like an earthen vessel to be filled up; convenient fuel and aliment only will inflame it with a desire of knowledge and ardent love of truth. --Plutarch (A.D. 46?119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. "Of Hearing" Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. --Marcel Proust (18711922) French novelist. _Remembrance of Things Past_ [19131927] What a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind. How true that is. --Dan Quayle (b. 1947) Vice-President of the United States [19891993]. Speech to United Negro College Fund, Washington, D.C. [9 May 1989]. The mind is but a barren soil a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. --Sir Joshua Reynolds (17231792) English painter. _A Discourse Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1772_ [1775] - Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. _άber den Willen in der Natur_ (On the Will in Nature) [1836] There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. _Studies in Pessimism_ [1851], "Further Psychological Observations" Great minds are like eagles, and build their nests in some lofty solitude. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. _Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_ [1851], "Counsels and Maxims" - - Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.- 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. "Epistle V" As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind, without cultivation, can never produce good fruit. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. Quoted in Hugh Moore _A Dictionary of Quotations from Various Authors in Ancient and Modern Languages_, p. 428 [1831]. - Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor: For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _The Taming of the Shrew_, IV, iii [1593-94] Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. --Mary Shelley (17971851) English novelist. _Frankenstein_, "Letter I" [1818] Age steals away all things, even the mind. --Virgil (7019 B.C.) Roman poet. _Eclogues_ [4337 BC], IX, 51 When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles. --Horace Walpole (17171797) English writer and connoisseur. Letter to Caroline, Countess of Ailesbury [10 July 1779]. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems. ... A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you'll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead. --Bill Waterson II (b. 1958) American cartoonist, creator of "Calvin and Hobbes." "Some Thoughts on the Real World by one who Glimpsed it and Fled" Speech at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio [20 May 1990]. - Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. --anon. Hyman G. Rickover in _The Saturday Evening Post_ of 28 November 1959 credits the saying to an "unknown sage". The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind. --anon. - Shhh . . . Don't Say 'Recession.' By Dan Ariely _The Washington Post_ [16 March 2008] If (as is often the case) talking about sex makes people more interested in having it, does that mean that the current talk about a recession could actually be creating one? Well, maybe. Or so one general finding of behavioral economics would have us believe. With all this chatter about a recession, consumers might, for example, hold off on buying that new dishwasher because of the "bad economy," or pass up the more expensive restaurant because "we're in a recession." Without any discussion about recession, we're unlikely to change our pattern of behavior. But talking about it can be a force that affects our decisions and alters our consumption habits. What makes me think that we're such creatures of habit? Consider the experience of eating a Godiva truffle: The chocolate is melting in your mouth, the aroma penetrates your nose, there is a small nut inside. . . . Now think about this familiar experience and try to determine how much it's worth to you. A quarter? 50 cents? 75 cents? $1.25? $2.50? While the experience of eating a truffle is very familiar, figuring out what we would be willing to pay for it proves difficult. So what do we do when we make purchasing decisions? Generally, we use past decisions as a guiding principle. If we have paid 50 cents for a Godiva truffle in the past, we remember this decision, assume it was a good one and probably repeat it again and again. Let's look at the following experiment: What if I asked you for the last two digits of your Social Security number (mine are 79), then asked you whether you would pay that number in dollars (for me this would be $79) for a particular bottle of 1998 Cotes du Rhone. Would the mere suggestion of that number influence how much you would be willing to spend on wine? Sounds preposterous, doesn't it? Well, here's what happened to a group of MBA students at MIT a few years ago. "Now here we have a nice 1998 Cotes du Rhone Jaboulet Parallel," said Drazen Prelec, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, as he lifted a bottle admiringly. Sitting before him were the 55 students from his marketing research class. On this day, Prelec, professor George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon University and I had an unusual request for this group of future marketing pros. We asked them to jot down the last two digits of their Social Security numbers and tell us whether they would pay that amount for a number of products, including the wine. Then we asked them to actually bid on these items in an auction. What were we trying to prove? The existence of what we called arbitrary coherence. The basic idea of arbitrary coherence is this: Although initial prices can be "arbitrary," once those prices are established in our minds, they will shape not only present prices but also future ones (thus making them "coherent"). So would thinking about one's Social Security number be enough to create an anchor? And would that initial anchor have a long-term influence? That's what we wanted to find out. "For those of you who don't know much about wines," Prelec continued, "this bottle received 86 points from Wine Spectator. It has the flavor of red berry, mocha and black chocolate; it's a medium-bodied, medium-intensity, nicely balanced red, and it makes for delightful drinking." He held up another bottle, a Jaboulet Hermitage La Chapelle, 1996, with a 92-point rating from the Wine Advocate magazine. "The finest La Chapelle since 1990," he intoned, while the students looked on curiously. "Only 8,100 cases made." Prelec held up four other items one by one: a cordless trackball, a cordless keyboard and mouse, a design book, and a one-pound box of Belgian chocolates. He passed out forms that listed all the items. "Now I want you to write the last two digits of your Social Security number at the top of the page," he instructed. "And then write them again next to each of the items in the form of a price. In other words, if the last two digits are 23, write $23." "Now when you're finished with that," he added, "I want you to indicate on your sheets whether you would pay that amount for each of the products." When the students had finished, Prelec asked them to write down the maximum amount they were willing to pay for each of the products (their bids). Then they passed the sheets up to me, and I announced the winners. The students enjoyed this exercise, but when I asked them whether they felt that writing down the last two digits of their Social Security numbers had influenced their final bids, they dismissed my suggestion. No way! When I got back to my office, I analyzed the data. Did the digits from the Social Security numbers serve as anchors? Remarkably, they did: The students with the highest-ending Social Security digits bid highest, while those with the lowest-ending numbers bid lowest. The top 20 percent, for instance, bid an average of $56 for the cordless keyboard; the bottom 20 percent bid an average of $16. In the end, students with Social Security numbers ending in the upper 20 percent placed bids that were 216 to 346 percent higher than those of the students with Social Security numbers ending in the lowest 20 percent. Now, if the last two digits of your Social Security number are a high number, I know what you must be thinking: "I've been paying too much for everything my entire life!" This is not the case, however. Social Security numbers were the anchor in this experiment only because we requested them. We could just as well have asked for the current temperature, or your shoe size. Any question, in fact, would have created the anchor. Does that seem rational? Of course not. But when we make one decision, even when it's about an arbitrary number, we bring this history into our future decisions, and continue to make the same decisions over and over without going back and questioning their wisdom. This suggests that if we just ignored the talk about recession, we would repeat our past behaviors and not deviate much from our pre-recession pattern of purchasing decisions. But when everyone is talking about recession, it's likely to make us stop, rethink our past decisions and feel that something needs to change. And so we change our patterns, start acting as if we're in a recession -- and thereby create one. On the whole, it might be better if we just talked about sex instead. Dan Ariely is the Alfred P. Sloan professor of behavioral economics at MIT's Sloan School of Management and the author of "Predictably Irrational." - - For a Time in the '50s, A Huckster Fanned Fears of Ad 'Hypnosis' by Cynthia Crossen _The Wall Street Journal_ [5 November 2007] At a New York press conference 50 years ago, a market researcher, James Vicary, announced he had invented a way to make people buy things whether they wanted them or not. It was called subliminal advertising. He had tested the process at a New Jersey movie theater, he said, where he had flashed the words "Eat Popcorn" or "Coca-Cola" on the screen every five seconds as the films played. The words came and went so fast -- in three-thousandths of a second -- that the audience didn't know they'd seen them. Yet sales of popcorn and Coke increased significantly. "Subliminal Messages -- Friend or Foe?" a newspaper headline asked in early 1959, and the public took sides. Critics called subliminal advertising "merchandising hypnosis" and "remote control of national thought." Rep. William A. Dawson (R., Utah) called it "S.P." or "sneak pitch." "Contemplate, if you will," Mr. Dawson said, "the effect of an invisible but effective appeal to 'drink more beer' being poured into the subconscious of teenage viewers." All three television networks vowed they wouldn't permit subliminal advertising in their broadcasts. Several state legislatures considered bills outlawing it. In 1958, an independent Los Angeles TV station announced it would begin transmitting subliminal ads, starting with public-service messages, such as "Drive Safely" or "Join the Army." The station was deluged with letters, phone calls and petitions from people who were afraid they would be persuaded to do or buy things against their will. The station canceled its test. Brainwashing was a very real fear in the late 1950s. A few dozen American prisoners of the Korean War, indoctrinated by their Chinese jailers, had publicly defected to communism. Meanwhile, people were spending more time staring at screens, exposed to new kinds of ads based on motivational research. Vance Packard's best-selling exposι, "The Hidden Persuaders," published in 1957, had warned people of the "mass psychoanalysis" that was turning them into "Pavlov's conditioned dog." A newspaper columnist, George Dixon, wrote, only partly in jest, "We might be made to unconsciously absorb the suggestion that it is always Christmas and normal to be flat broke." It didn't take long before rationality reasserted control of the national brain. People began trying to replicate Mr. Vicary's experiment. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. flashed the message "Telephone now" 352 times on a 30-minute program. Of the more than 500 viewers who responded to a follow-up survey, 51% said they felt compelled to "do something" after watching the show. Many said they felt like having something to eat or drink. Only one said she felt like making a phone call. In another test in San Francisco, 150 viewers, most of them television and radio broadcasters, watched a 25-minute film with an advertising message flashed every five seconds. The viewers then got a ballot with nine product names from which to identify the advertiser. Only 14 people chose the right name, a soft drink. More than twice as many chose a brand of chewing gum. [ . . . ] In 1962, Mr. Vicary, in an interview, admitted that he had fabricated the results of the popcorn test to drum up business for his market-research firm. Subliminal ads were tossed into the invention junkyard. "All I accomplished," he said, "was to put a new word into common usage." - ----- dotage [DOH-tij], noun: Feebleness of mind due to old age; senility. pervious (adj.) ['pκ(r)-vi-κs] 1. Permeable, penetrable, allowing passage through itself. 2. Susceptible to reason, approachable, can be reasoned with. precocious (adj.) [pri-'koh-shuh s] Unusually developed or mature, especially in reference to the minds of children.  ;void(0)) MIND READING . . see: "MIND" (above) for related links If we were all given, by magic, the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be that almost all friendships would be dissolved. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. _The Conquest of Happiness_ [1930] - 28 Percentage of adults who, if they could have a single superpower, say they would most like to be able to read minds, according to a survey for Activision. 15 Percentage who say they would like to be able to fly. 11 Percentage who say they would like to be able to be invisible. 9 Percentage who say they would like to be able to have super strength. --blurb in _Las Vegas Business Press_ [28 August 2006] - ;void(0)) MINDING OWN BUSINESS . . see: "BUSYBODIES" see: "CURIOSITY" see: "GLASS HOUSES" [The makers of the Constitution] conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized man. --Louis Brandeis (18561941) American lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1916-39]. In "Olmstead et al. vs. United States," 277 U.S. 438, 478 [1928]. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. --H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b. 1940) American author. _Life's Little Instruction Book_ [1991] Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. --William S. Burroughs (19141997) American author associated with the Beat Generation. _The Adding Machine_ [1985] "My Own Business" 'If everyone minded their own business,' said the Duchess in a hoarse growl, 'the world would go round a great deal faster than it does.' --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898) English writer and logician. _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_, ch. 6 [1865] America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the [first] World War. If you hadn't entered the war the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the Spring of 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by Communism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned Nazism in Germany. If America had stayed out of the war, all these "isms" wouldn't today be sweeping the continent in Europe and breaking down parliamentary government, and if England had made peace early in 1917, it would have saved over one million British, French, American, and other lives. --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940-45, 1951-55]. Speaking with an William Griffen, editor of the "Enquirer" (NY) [August 1936]. There is philosophy in the remark that every man has in his own life follies enough, in the performance of his duty deficiencies enough, in his own mind trouble enough, without being curious after the affairs of others. --Charles Dibdin (17451814) British actor and dramatist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 184 [10th ed. 1884]. ^^ Ralph Waldo Emerson was once asked to speak at a ceremony commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the famous battle of Concord (and the two hundredth anniversary of the town's founding). Emerson considered the request a great honor and resolved to produce a literary work based on the battle. Indeed, he decided to question the surviving veterans about their experiences. One day in the course of his investigation, Emerson met a barefooted farmer driving his oxen. Curious, the poet asked the man whether everyone in the area went without shoes and stockings. "Wal, some on 'em does," the farmer replied, "and the rest on 'em minds their own business." --http://anecdotage.com/ ^^ I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. --Robert Frost (18741963) American poet. Address, Berkeley, California [1935]. If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. --attributed to Thomas Fuller Those who in quarrels interpose Must often wipe a bloody nose. --John Gay (16851732) English poet and dramatist. _Fables_, pt. 1 [1727], "The Mastiffs" Our wail over our neighbor's soul is simply the wail of a busybody. --James Gibbons Huneker (18601921) American critic of music, art, and literature. "Max Stirner" in _Essays by James Huneker_ [1929]. There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. --Aldous Huxley (18941963) English novelist (Grandson of T.H. Huxley.) _Time Must Have a Stop_ [1944] He who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. "The Rambler" (English journal), Number 6 [7 April 1750]. You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves. --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (19091966) Polish writer. _Unkempt Thoughts_ [1962] One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he can't give up a thing without wanting everyone else to give it up. That isn't the Christian way. --C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (18981963) British scholar and novelist. _Christian Behavior_ [1944] - One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_, trans. Maxwell Staniforth [1964] How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_, trans. Maxwell Staniforth [1964] - Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention. --Judith "Miss Manners" Martin (b. 1938) American newspaper columnist. Quoted in William Safire & Leonard Safir _Words of Wisdom: More Good Advice_ [1989]. The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself. --John Stuart Mill (18061873) English philosopher and social reformer. _On Liberty_, ch. 5 [1859] - No, the American car industry was not destroyed by its cars. The American car industry was destroyed by the Fun-Suckers. You know the Fun-Suckers. You may be married to one. The Fun-Suckers go around saying how unsafe this fun thing is and how unhealthy that fun thing is and how unfair, unjust, uncaring, insensitive, divisive, contagious, and fattening every other fun thing is. The Fun-Suckers are a bit too careful, a bit too concerned, a bit too scrupulous. That's bullshit. They're evil and they hate us. The motive behind spoiling things for others and then throwing a wet blanket over the rained-on parade is a matter of neither caution nor morals. The Fun-Suckers suck the fun out of life in order to gain control. They've found a way to gain power without merit. --P.J. O'Rourke (b. 1947) American political satirist. Introduction, _Driving Like Crazy_ [2009] - One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 53 [1908 ed.]. 'Do not spill thy soul' in running hither and yon grieving over the misfortunes the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary in this world to reform is yourself. --Dorothy Quigley _Success Is For You_, ch. XIV [1897] Live and let live. --Scottish proverb There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. --Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. "A Christmas Sermon" in _Scribner's Magazine_ [December 1888]. Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. --Terence [Publius Terentius Afer] (c. 190159 BC) Roman comic dramatist. Quoted in Hugh Moore _A Dictionary of Quotations from Various Authors in Ancient and Modern Languages_ [1831]. If an American were condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. --Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859) French historian and politician. _Democracy in America_, vol. I, pt. II, ch. 14 [1835] Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. --J.R.R. [John Ronald Reuel] Tolkien (18921973) South African-born English author. _The Fellowship of the Ring_, bk. I, ch. 3 [1954] Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894], ch. 15 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" - I was walking past the mental hospital the other day, and all of the patients were outside shouting "13...13...13..." The fence was too high to see over, but I saw a little gap in the planks, so I looked through to see what was going on. Somebody poked me in the eye with a stick! 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