Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Kahneman

... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.

Cristina Saralegui

Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.

Conor Oberst

I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

Clarence Darrow

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

Daniel D. Palmer

The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

Daniel Dennett

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

Daniel Dennett

I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human minds are non-miraculous products of evolution, then they are, in the requisite sense, artifacts, and all their powers must have an ultimately mechanical explanation. We are descended from macros and made of macros, and nothing we can do is beyond the power of huge assemblies of macros.

Daniel Dennett

The mind is the effect, not the cause.

Alexander McCall Smith

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

Alexander McCall Smith

Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

Alexander Pope

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

Alexander Pope

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Alexander Pope

Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

Alex Graves

Well my motto was "Never Monologue a Clegane", because Beric Dondarrion and Thoros were messing around with The Hound and Beric essentially got killed, even though he got to come back, and then the monologue is just a foolish thing to do. But it's also psychological state of mind, he can't get over his sister.

E. P. Thompson

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

E. Stanley Jones

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

E. Stanley Jones

The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being

E. Stanley Jones

If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.

E. O. Wilson

[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

E. O. Wilson

The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry

E. M. Forster

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

E. M. Forster

Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

Doug E. Fresh

Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.

Donna Karan

Everyone contributes something different to the mind, body and spirit.

Donald E. Graham

The longer I lived in the east, the more completely I realized that, for better or worse, I was going to be, to everybody's mind, wherever I lived, a Texan.

Donald Cram

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

Don DeLillo

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

Douglas Adams

Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

Douglas Adams

Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them.

Douglas Adams

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Douglas Adams

No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.

Douglas Adams

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

Douglas Adams

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.