Psychology Quotes by Terry Pratchett

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

— Terry Pratchett

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

— Terry Pratchett

“His granny taught him to read, see. I reckon it overheated his mind.”

— Terry Pratchett

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

— Terry Pratchett

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

— Terry Pratchett

“When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany. Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half…

— Terry Pratchett

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

— Terry Pratchett

“There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing.”

— Terry Pratchett

Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail

— Terry Pratchett

Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat…

— Terry Pratchett

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.…

— Terry Pratchett

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man…

— Terry Pratchett

“He wondered what it was like in the Patrician’s mind. All cold and shiny, he thought, all blued steel and icicles and…

— Terry Pratchett

“Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into…

— Terry Pratchett

“If you let your mind dwell on rooms like this, you could end up being oddly sad and full of a strange…

— Terry Pratchett

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is.…

— Terry Pratchett

His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity…

— Terry Pratchett

Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best…

— Terry Pratchett

Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word…

— Terry Pratchett

“Writing stays. It fastens words down. A man can speak his mind and some nasty wee scuggan will write it down and…

— Terry Pratchett

The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your…

— Terry Pratchett

I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in…

— Terry Pratchett

“Winder's mind felt even fuzzier than it had done over the past few years, but he was certain about cake. He'd been…

— Terry Pratchett

Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical…

— Terry Pratchett

“Right,' he said uncertainty. His mind was grinding through the problem. She was a witch. Just lately there'd been a lot of…

— Terry Pratchett

It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts…

— Terry Pratchett

There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You…

— Terry Pratchett

We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind." "Oh, no! You think so?" "Yes." "But... no... you can't be right. Because…

— Terry Pratchett

“Do you know what it feels like to be aware of every star, every blade of grass? Yes. You do. You call…

— Terry Pratchett

“What is magic? Then there is the witches' explanation, which comes in two forms, depending on the age of the witch. Older…

— Terry Pratchett

“Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits…

— Terry Pratchett

“Dodger made haste towards the house of the Mayhews while in his mind he saw the cheerful face and hooked nose of…

— Terry Pratchett

“The thought had crossed his mind, only very fast and looking nervously from side to side in case it got knocked over.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Brutha tried to put it out of his mind, which was like trying to empty a bucket underwater.”

— Terry Pratchett

“It was no secret that the most highly balanced minds sometimes, well, overbalanced.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Royalty pollutes people’s minds, boy. honest men start bowing and bobbing just because someone’s granddad was a bigger murdering bastard than theirs…

— Terry Pratchett

“His heart’s in the right place, mind,” said Lezek, carefully. “Ah. ’Course, ’tis the rest of him that isn’t.”

— Terry Pratchett

Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.

— Terry Pratchett

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things…

— Terry Pratchett