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A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

— Patrick O'Brian

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

— Ramana Maharshi

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

— Muhammad Iqbal

I want to know how the mind works.

— John O'Keefe

The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

— William Hazlitt

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

— Dani Shapiro

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

— Alfred North Whitehead

✗Opposing Perspectives

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.

— Richard Blackmore

It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

— Vinoba Bhave