Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Rice

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

Anne Rice

Let the flesh instruct the mind.

Andrew Sullivan

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

Daniel Kahneman

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

Daniel Kahneman

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

Daniel Kahneman

... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.

Cristina Saralegui

Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.

Conor Oberst

I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

Clarence Darrow

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

Daniel D. Palmer

The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

Daniel Dennett

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

Daniel Dennett

I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human minds are non-miraculous products of evolution, then they are, in the requisite sense, artifacts, and all their powers must have an ultimately mechanical explanation. We are descended from macros and made of macros, and nothing we can do is beyond the power of huge assemblies of macros.

Daniel Dennett

The mind is the effect, not the cause.

Dan Chaon

Plot was always secondary in my mind.

Ambrose Bierce

COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

Alison Bechdel

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Renee Fleming

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

Rene Descartes

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

Thomas Browne

Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.

Robert Greene

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

Ricky Hatton

They call me Ricky Fatton. Mind you I've had a lot on my plate recently. I got measured for this suit the other week. They measured my pants, jacket, top to bottom. Bloody hell Ricky you're a Mark F they said, a size up from a marquee.

Tariq Ramadan

There is no faith, without a critical mind

Tony Robbins

Unless you feed your mind, those suffering states will take over.

Thomas Carlyle

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

Tony Buzan

The mind map will change your life.

Sally Pearson

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

Saadi

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

Sri Chinmoy

One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind.

Tim LaHaye

I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.

Thurston Moore

My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper

Thomas Hobbes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

Victoria Legrand

I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.

Sophocles

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.