'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

It is common with narrow-minded people to reflect upon every respect in which other people differ from themselves.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

If I were to look in you ferigerator....refridgefreetorator...fridge....what would I find?

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Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.

We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country. ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must keep in mind all that may work towards the glory of his country. In every great scientist will be found a great patriot.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

Chance favours a prepared mind.

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind— And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind. Then let us hurry, comrades, The road to find.

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.

"I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion."

My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.

“In all of modern history, no single invention has so perfectly captured the perverse power of the mind to defeat its own best intentions as the snooze button. Situated” 

“when you count backwards, you mentally shift the gears in your mind. You interrupt your default thinking and do what psychologists call “assert control.” The counting distracts you from your excuses and focuses your mind on moving in a new direction. When you physically move instead of stopping to think, your physiology changes and your mind falls in line.” 

“Passion is not a thing, it's a state of mind.”