Quotes About Mindset

the investor's chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It

Anger leads to savagery,' I said curtly, 'and to stupidity.

You can change a man's heart, but not his head.

He thinks with his heart, Uhtred,' Alfred said, 'not his head. You can change a man's heart, but not his head.

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You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

The habit of thinking in terms of comparison is a fatal one.

Very few people are able to discount the effect of circumstances upon their own characters.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

What really moves people to believe in God is not any intellectual argument at all. Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason.

Ser optimista o pesimista es cuestion de temperamento, no de razones.

Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

for if once you have become filled with hate you will not easily derive from construction the pleasure which another man would derive from it.

Querría ver un mundo en el que la educación tendiese a la libertad mental en lugar de encerrar la mente de la juventud en la rígida armadura del dogma, calculado para protegerla durante toda su vida contra los dardos de la prueba imparcial. El mundo necesita mentes y corazones abiertos, y éstos no pueden derivarse de rígidos sistemas, ya sean viejos o nuevos. BERTRAND RUSELL

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible horrible.

Como dice Russell, «las personas que son desdichadas, como las que duermen mal, siempre se enorgullecen de ello». Este es el primer obstáculo a vencer si uno pretende intentar ser feliz, dejar de intentar a toda costa ser «interesante».

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

It's what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us.