Minds Quotes

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds.

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.