Answers Quote by John Locke

The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.

— Robert K. Merton

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I…

— Thomas Traherne

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.…

— Louis L'Amour

Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom…

— Margaret Atwood

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books.…

— Virginia Woolf

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

— Alan Moore

“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so…

— Kim Edwards

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

— Dee Hock

The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded…

— Gunter Brus

Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits…

— George Saunders

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but…

— David Levithan

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

— David Copperfield