Character Quote by Allen W. Wood

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to…

— Frank Herbert

“It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are…

— Stephen Hawking

“It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it…

— Sam Harris

“Our thinking controls how we react towards our circumstances,therefore, never allow antecedent causes to necessitate your actions...”

— Christopher Ty

While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequences of those choices.

— Russell M. Nelson

Any picture firmly held in any mind, in any form, is bound to come forth. That is the great, unchanging universal law that, when…

— Roger McDonald

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

— Albert Einstein

It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of…

— Stephen R. Covey

“The law of your mind is this: You will get a reaction or response from your subconscious mind according to the nature of the…

— Joseph Murphy

If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously…

— David Eagleman

“Recent experiments in neuroscience support the view that it is our physical brain, following the known laws of science, that determines our actions, and…

— Stephen Hawking