Small world Quote by Oliver Sacks

“When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind,the highest…

— Maitreya Upanishad

“the only place a man can be truly handicapped is in his mind, and that a man who can conquer his own mind has…

— Richard Price

“Persons without education certainly do not want [lack] either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their…

— William Hazlitt

“Those who first acquired language and tried to think the human situation were utterly overwhelmed. They could cope only by imagining that there were…

— Don Cupitt

“Mind in language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves.”

— William Zinsser

“It would be very peculiar if a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think…

— Hans Eysenck

“Language only has the lack of imagination as a barrier.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“I was not too impressed with human language; it seemed absurdly limited. There was so much that couldn’t be put into words. That was…

— Alexandra Adornetto

“It was not possible to think except with one’s brain, no one could stand outside himself in order to check the functioning of his…

— Stanisław Lem

“This is the pre-verbal language that linguists call Mentalese. Hardly a language, more a matrix of shifting patterns, consolidating and compressing meaning in fractions…

— Ian McEwan

“I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.”

— Francis Bacon