Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilhelm Wundt

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.

Wilhelm Wundt

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

Walter Savage Landor

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Walter Savage Landor

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

Walter Gilbert

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

Winston Churchill

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

Winston Churchill

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

William Safire

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

William Safire

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

William S. Burroughs

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

William S. Burroughs

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

William S. Burroughs

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

William S. Burroughs

Open your mind and let the pictures out

William S. Burroughs

He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.

William Manchester

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.

William Matthews

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

William McDonough

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

Viola Spolin

When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.

Woodrow Wilson

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

Woodrow Wilson

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.

Saint Augustine

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

Saint Augustine

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

Yanni

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

Wilma Rudolph

I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.

Wilson Mizner

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

Will Rogers

Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.

W. C. Fields

Never mind what I told you--you do as I tell you.

Zora Neale Hurston

I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Yves Behar

Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.

Yoweri Museveni

I've changed my mind, even against Omar al-Bashir. Whether he has to be charged or not, the Sudanese shall decide or the Africans.

Zhang Yimou

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.