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Below are some quotes which I have come across and found
interesting. As the list grows I intend to continue resisting the temptation
to categorise them, as they should prove relevant to a variety of domains. The problem is, Bill, that the kids nowadays have got personal stereos and higher education.
If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.
In a world where everything is possible, nothing can be achieved. Man was made for action, and to promote by the exertion of his faculties such changes in the external circumstances both of himself and others, as may seem most favourable to the happiness of all.
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.
Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.
I think it is not helpful to apply Darwinian language too widely. Conquest of nation by nation is too distant for Darwinian explanations to be helpful.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbor a nonphysical mind.
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The pupil’s mind is a growing organism.
It is not the case that teaching necessarily implies learning. What teaching implies is merely the intention to bring about learning.
Though it is prima facie wrong to tell a lie, other moral claims may override the demand to tell the truth.
Learning is no more than a sector of cognitive development that is facilitated by experience.
Voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.
Development, according to a well-known definition, is precisely the struggle of opposites.
There is, in fact, no teaching without learning. One requires the other.
Something in the mind must be innate.
Each of us feels that there is a single “I” in control. But that is an illusion that the brain works hard to produce.
There are always an infinite number of generalizations that a learner can draw from a finite set of inputs.
It’s not all in the genes, but what isn’t in the genes isn’t from the parents either.
The goal of all life is death
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