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Quotes About Minds

The Peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
~ Anonymous
Feelings are the mental expressions of homeostasis, while homeostasis, acting under the cover of feeling, is the functional thread that links early life-forms to the extraordinary partnership of bodies and nervous systems. That partnership is responsible for the emergence of conscious, feeling minds that are, in turn, responsible for what is most distinctive about humanity: cultures and civilizations. Feelings are at the center of the book, but they draw their powers from homeostasis.
~ António R. Damásio
This book is dedicated to presenting some facts behind the making of minds that think, create narratives and meaning, remember the past and imagine the future; and to presenting some facts behind the machinery of feeling and consciousness responsible for the reciprocal connections among minds, the outside world, and its respective life.
~ António R. Damásio
The ability to generate images opened the way for organisms to represent the world around them, a world that included every possible kind of object and other whole organisms; and, just as important, it allowed organisms to represent the world inside each of them. Before the emergence of mapping and images and minds, organisms could acknowledge the presence of other organisms and of external objects and respond accordingly.
~ António R. Damásio
The sensing and responding level of perception precedes minds, historically speaking, and is also present in minded organisms now.
~ António R. Damásio
You have minds," Bastian murmurs one evening in the refectory, each boy hunching almost imperceptibly farther over his food as the commandant's finger grazes the back of his uniform. "But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.
~ Anthony Doerr
You have minds. But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.
~ Anthony Doerr
But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.
~ Anthony Doerr
Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.
~ Anthony Doerr
In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.
~ Charles D. Broad
I find the world of podcasts very interesting because it truly puts the audience's visualisation into action. Each and every person listening to it can create their own stories in their minds, with the help of the voice they are listening to.
~ Pratik Gandhi
Erra chi dice che le lettere guastano e' cervelli degli uomini, perché è forse vero in chi l'ha debole; ma dove lo truovano buono, lo fanno perfetto; perché el buono naturale congiunto col buono accidentale fa nobilissima composizione.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.
~ Francine Rivers
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. —Darwi Odrade
~ Frank Herbert
Regulile stricte înal?? fortificaÅ£ii la ad?postul c?rora minÅ£ile înguste creaz? satrapii. Stare de lucruri periculoas? când totul merge bine, dezastruoas? în momente de criz?.
~ Frank Herbert
Regulile stricte înal?? fortificaÈ›ii la ad?postul c?rora minÈ›ile înguste îi creeaz? pe satrapi. Stare de lucruri periculoas? când totul merge bine, dezastruoas? în momente de criz?.
~ Frank Herbert
each of the 6 billion human brains on the Earth.
~ Frank J. Tipler
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
~ Albert II of Belgium
You can't win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them - you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts.
~ Jason Silva
Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin',' he set a whole new standard.
~ Jimmy Iovine
Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.
~ Imran Khan
A scientific world-view which does not profoundly come to terms with the problem of conscious minds can have no serious pretensions of completeness.
~ Roger Penrose
There is nothing we can do or not do that successfully conceals our intentions from the dogs, it seems. ... I'd like to think they can read our minds but then it would really be scary because I'm not sure souls as tender, wise, and honest should be subjected to human perfidy.
~ Roger Welsch