Quotes About Minds

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio describes emotions as the "continuous musical line of our minds, the unstoppable humming."3

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio describes emotions as the continuous musical line of our minds, the unstoppable humming. This basso continuo thrums along while doctors make a steady stream of conscious medical decisions.

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. —Thomas Sowell

The wisdom of the Gods is such that their instruction is concealed within stories. Our minds delight in the stories, and the messages of the Gods are implanted thus. All unaware, we are instructed even as we are entertained.

Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets

Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigured so together, More witnesseth than fancy's images And grows to something of great constancy, But, howsoever, strange and admirable.

Now all our hope is to regulate the unthinkable. Regulated unthinkability—that is the proposal now; and very soon it will be a question of making up our minds to unregulated unthinkability.

Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.

but that it is only the writings and precepts of the philosophers and other fine writers that are the true riches, because they enrich with virtue the minds of those that possess them. Euthydemus

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Therapies we can purchase and caregivers we can consult, whether available through conventional or unconventional medicine, are still far more impressive to us than our own hearts and minds, lungs and hopes, muscles and beliefs, even though they sustain us day in and day out.

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

It takes a generation, he says, to reconcile heads and hearts. Englishmen of every shire are wedded to what their nurses told them. They do not like to think too hard, or disturb the plan of the world that exists inside their heads, and they will not accept change unless it puts them in better ease. But new

But remember that truth itself becomes a lie in the twisted minds of our conquerors.

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Chi infatti deciderà se è spettacolo più orrendo quello dei cuori umani induriti o quello dei teschi vuoti?

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

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.

'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.

I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.