
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
Epilogue
Novels, Squeeze Me (2020)
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
“The mind, once stretched by an idea, never returns to its original dimension.”
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 224
“A man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”
Also reported as "One's mind" instead of "A man's mind", and "can never go back" or "never regains" instead of "never goes back"; most likely properly attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Misattributed
Often given as: A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Or: A mind that is stretched by a new idea can never go back to its old dimensions.
Actually by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior, from " Autocrat of the Breakfast Table https://books.google.com/books?id=BoQ3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA502&dq=%22stretched+by+a+new+idea%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwidspn60tTJAhVJ1GMKHbt3Bn0Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22stretched%20by%20a%20new%20idea%22&f=false", originally published in The Atlantic, September 1858.
Misattributed
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
“The mind that opens to a new idea, Never comes back to its original size.”
Actually said by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in his book The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: "Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions."
Misattributed
“I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.”
Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“The English Channel is the perfect stretch of water to truly test the human mind.”
25 November 2011, Twitter
Speaking & Features
Dita Amory, in Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors; Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009 - ISBN 978-0-300-14889-3, p. 4
Bonnard started to paint usually on an unstretched canvas