Mind Reading Quotes

• Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Inspirational, Reading, Memorable

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1997). “The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories”, p.73, UPNE

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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• In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

  Leo Durocher

  Reading, Umpires, Mind

  Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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• When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.

  Guy Picciotto

  Reading, Mind, Pages

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• Great relationships are based on clarity, not mind-reading.

  Steve Arterburn

  Reading, Mind, Clarity

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• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book”, p.356

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

  Matthew Kelly

  Prayer, Book, Reading

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Life, Happiness, Reading

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• A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Ice, Mind

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.121, Bantam

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• What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

  Mason Cooley

  Reading, Mind, Body

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• Reading musses up my mind.

  Henry Ford

  Reading, Mind, Politics

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• I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the stars, or anything of the sort. In many cases it is simply mind-reading. Sometimes wonderful predictions are made, but in many cases it is arrant trash.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Stars, Believe, Reading

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3648, Manonmani Publishers

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• Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.

  Diane Setterfield

  Book, Reading, Light

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Reading, Blood, Mind

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• We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Wise, Reading, Successful

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• It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

  Sydney Smith

  Wise, Strong, Powerful

  Sydney Smith (1849). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806”, p.102

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• Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Travel, Reading

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.12, Penguin

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• I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

  Rick Remender

  Reading, Thinking, People

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reading, Ipads, Mind

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• It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful sentences written in English.

  George Saunders

  Beautiful, Reading, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and there was no budget for destructive measures. They were taken step by step, one step at a time. Thus came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus - mind reading by a far-flung bureaucracy.

  Raul Hilberg

  Taken, Reading, Agency

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• He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reading, Squares, Guy

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.

  Tom Regan

  Reading, Mind, Changed

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

  Benjamin Carson

  Reading, Exercise, Imagination

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