Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes,
Or any seeker know by mortal mind?
Veil after veil will lift — but there must be
Veil upon veil behind.
Safe, fallen down this way, I want to be just what I am.
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▲ 1,709 quotes and all is well.
The archive contains 1,709 quotes. From Dorothy Parker to Pinky and Brain, you're sure to find something special.
There are quote collections about love, heart, desire, life, death, god, mind, science.
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All quotes about mind
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The Light of Asia, VIII
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The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
Light
166
I don’t mind sleeping on an empty stomach provided it isn’t my own.
286
All life is a struggle in the dark ... This dread and
darkness of the mind cannot be dispelled by the
sunbeams, the shining shafts of day, but only by
an understanding of the outward form and inner
workings of nature. And now to business,
I will explain ...
darkness of the mind cannot be dispelled by the
sunbeams, the shining shafts of day, but only by
an understanding of the outward form and inner
workings of nature. And now to business,
I will explain ...
On the Nature of the Universe
345
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
390
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
414
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
437
A mind is like a parachute; it only works when it is open.
444
Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head.
450
Get your mind out of the gutter—it’s blocking my view.
488
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are a few.
612
There is a lady sweet and kind,
Was never a face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.
Was never a face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.
617
With women the heart argues, not the mind.
Merope, 1.341
674
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.
London
696
Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.
Paracelsus, pt. iii, i.363
708
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
Note Books
743
That out of sight is out of mind
Is true of most we leave behind.
Is true of most we leave behind.
Songs in Absence, That Out of Sight
866
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
Of Tragedy
871
Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure conrners in one’s own mind.
Man’s Place in Nature
965
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
983
Dans les champs de l’observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.
[Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind.]
[Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind.]
1137
Years steal
Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb,
And life’s enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb,
And life’s enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
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This have I known always: Love is no more
Than the wide blossom which the wind assails,
Than the great tide that treads the shifting shore,
Strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales:
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
Than the wide blossom which the wind assails,
Than the great tide that treads the shifting shore,
Strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales:
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
Sonnets, xxix
1195
I know a man that’s a braver man
And twenty men as kind,
And what are you, that you should be
The one man in my mind?
And twenty men as kind,
And what are you, that you should be
The one man in my mind?
The Philosopher
1317
Her mind lives tidily, apart
From cold and noise and pain,
And bolts the door against her heart,
Out wailing in the rain.
From cold and noise and pain,
And bolts the door against her heart,
Out wailing in the rain.
Interior
1508
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
1547
So the old tunes float in my mind,
And go from me leaving no trace behind,
Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.
but in the instant the airs remain
I know the laughter and the pain
Of times that will not come again.
And go from me leaving no trace behind,
Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.
but in the instant the airs remain
I know the laughter and the pain
Of times that will not come again.
Old Tunes
1584
Remember me and beare in mind
A truthful friend is hard to find
The path of sorrow and that alone
Leads to a place where sorrow is unknown.
A truthful friend is hard to find
The path of sorrow and that alone
Leads to a place where sorrow is unknown.
Autograph Albums and Bible of Ella Beaver Calhoun
1634
Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet,
A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete;
But if, as on occasion, the heart and mind are sour,
It has no great significance, and loses half its power.
A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete;
But if, as on occasion, the heart and mind are sour,
It has no great significance, and loses half its power.
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Propensity score weighting
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. —Mr. Spock (Star Trek II)
This month, we explore a related and powerful technique to address bias: propensity score weighting (PSW), which applies weights to each subject instead of matching (or discarding) them.
▲ Nature Methods Points of Significance column: Propensity score weighting.
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Kurz, C.F., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2025) Points of significance: Propensity score weighting. Nat. Methods 22:1–3.
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Crafting 10 Years of Statistics Explanations: Points of Significance
I donât have good luck in the match points. —Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
Points of Significance is an ongoing series of short articles about statistics in Nature Methods that started in 2013. Its aim is to provide clear explanations of essential concepts in statistics for a nonspecialist audience. The articles favor heuristic explanations and make extensive use of simulated examples and graphical explanations, while maintaining mathematical rigor.
Topics range from basic, but often misunderstood, such as uncertainty and P-values, to relatively advanced, but often neglected, such as the error-in-variables problem and the curse of dimensionality. More recent articles have focused on timely topics such as modeling of epidemics, machine learning, and neural networks.
In this article, we discuss the evolution of topics and details behind some of the story arcs, our approach to crafting statistical explanations and narratives, and our use of figures and numerical simulations as props for building understanding.
▲ Crafting 10 Years of Statistics Explanations: Points of Significance.
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Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2025) Crafting 10 Years of Statistics Explanations: Points of Significance. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application 12:69–87.
Propensity score matching
I donât have good luck in the match points. —Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
In many experimental designs, we need to keep in mind the possibility of confounding variables, which may give rise to bias in the estimate of the treatment effect.
▲ Nature Methods Points of Significance column: Propensity score matching.
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If the control and experimental groups aren't matched (or, roughly, similar enough), this bias can arise.
Sometimes this can be dealt with by randomizing, which on average can balance this effect out. When randomization is not possible, propensity score matching is an excellent strategy to match control and experimental groups.
Kurz, C.F., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2024) Points of significance: Propensity score matching. Nat. Methods 21:1770–1772.
Understanding p-values and significance
P-values combined with estimates of effect size are used to assess the importance of experimental results. However, their interpretation can be invalidated by selection bias when testing multiple hypotheses, fitting multiple models or even informally selecting results that seem interesting after observing the data.
We offer an introduction to principled uses of p-values (targeted at the non-specialist) and identify questionable practices to be avoided.
▲ Understanding p-values and significance.
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Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2024) Understanding p-values and significance. Laboratory Animals 58:443–446.
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