Mimic Quotes
66 quotes by 65 authors
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The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers…
— William Allman
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Human life has the software and hardware to go the distance. All we need to do is know our nature and mimic nature's way. Do…
— John Douillard
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There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
— Art Carney
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
— Plato
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us.…
— Huston Smith
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Knowledge is a mimic creation.
— Horace Mann
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Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local…
— David Holmgren
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The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.
— David Adjaye
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Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in…
— Kiki Smith
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Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family
— Jane Smiley
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As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run…
— Amby Burfoot
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What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make…
— Adyashanti
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In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology…
— Christopher Hitchens
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For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first…
— Lance Morrow
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As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your…
— Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it…
— Matthew Barney
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Sometimes even feeling bad feels good. Negative emotions can feel so familiar (especially if they mimic our past) as to actually be comforting. Awareness is…
— Danielle LaPorte
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The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a…
— Michio Kaku
Who Wrote These Mimic Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 66 Mimic Quotes, led by these top contributors: