Other Minds Quotes

30 quotes by 27 authors

The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure,… — Lewis Thomas
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds. — William Hazlitt
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential… — Arthur Schuster
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.… — Charles Horton Cooley
We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in… — Roger Ebert
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not… — Petrarch
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made. — Robert Barany
The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art… — George Inness
People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about… — Simon Blackburn
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One… — Elaine Scarry
Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into… — Rebecca Saxe
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams — Neil Gaiman
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual… — A A Milne
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind. — John Steinbeck
The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good… — Eckhart Tolle
The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at… — John Muir
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the… — Neil Gaiman
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other… — Ian Mcewan

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