Louis L'Amour - Mind Quotes

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A sword is never enough. The mind is also a weapon, but like the sword it must be honed and kept sharp.

Louis L'Amour

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

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A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from some pretty elegant furnishings.

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The mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

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Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

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When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

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What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

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