Conscious mind Quote by Daphne du Maurier

“They had come to the end of what they could talk about. Beyond that point there was nothing: the random thoughts of men who…

— Paul Auster

“They seemed to be locked behind built-in notions and no-nos, unaware of the mystery living through them or of the dance of illusion surrounding…

— James Broughton

“To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.”

— Margaret Mitchell

“From them I had nothing to learn—one cannot cease to know what one does know.”

— Thomas Ligotti

“The universe was filled with secrets, and he understood now that one of the biggest was that no one needed to know them all.”

— A. Lee Martinez

“Intellectually, they knew a great deal. Practically, they chose to know almost nothing.”

— Peter Benchley

“Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.”

— John Steinbeck

“Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and…

— Peter Prange

“They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.”

— Talleyrand

“I knew how to make sense of complicated things, as long as they had nothing to do with me.”

— Roxane Gay

“So goes the world: people talk as if they knew everything, and when you dare to ask, they do not know anything.”

— Paulo Coelho

“...no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson