Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors,… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“In summary, our minds are built to sabotage information in order to come out ahead in social games. When big parts of… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth.… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Hold any particular thought in the mind persistently until it has formed grooves in the brain-tissue and become dominant in the brain… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“It’s because I’m a witch that I can take these pictures,” Jennie said. “A good portrait photographer shows the outside of a… — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave,… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Pot is great for the abstract, for when you don't have to be regimented and for when you don't need parameters. When… — Steve "Lips" Kudlow Copy Share Image
“They are usually multi-talented, with dozens of ideas streaming across the “high-def” screen of their minds in a moving sort of neon,… — Jo Ann Brown-Scott Copy Share Image
“Goodwill to all.' I know it's techinically 'goodwill to all men,' but in my mind, I drop the 'men' because that feels… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well - a fire… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The things we have in common from our past, long past, are often in my mind. Now that it is all over… — Dolours Price Copy Share Image
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You can recognize almost immediately if the film you're watching is the product of some kind of a hive mind or the… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
“The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“She was ashamed at feeling disappointed; and began to reflect, as an excuse to herself, on the little objects which attract attention… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite… — Russ Shafer-Landau Copy Share Image
“All our modern “scientistic” presuppositions may tell us that mind must be entirely a mechanical function or residue of the brain’s neuronal… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Of course, in my mind, violence would have been better, but since that wasn’t an option, I decided to play along. “It’s… — Jeanne McDonald Copy Share Image
“The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling reason for him to seek an… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
“Reform suggests that you have already been solidified into a self. You were not. You were barely fifteen. You learn that the… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“He is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. If all else… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The Illusory Self I am composed of body and soul, I seem to have mind, reason, sense, yet I find none of… — Philo of Alexandria Copy Share Image
It is some disaster for any mind to hold any one thing for truth that is untrue, however insignificant it be, or… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
“Not as bad! Not as bad! my mind tried to comfort me. It was true. This wasn't as bad. This wasn't the… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
For so many years of my career, I was The Big Show. So in the back of my mind - whether it… — Big Show Copy Share Image
If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Wallace has read my mind. He has divined the things I thought while drawing this comic and put them down on paper.… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
“Why is it when you fall in love with someone (and especially when you are trying extremely hard not to do so),… — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image