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Mind Quotes by Carl Sagan
- My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology,…
- A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and…
- I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but…
- What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny…
- The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn…
- Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history.…
- The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each…
- The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
- Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
- In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change…
- The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as…
- Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or…
- Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an…
- What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny,…
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle