| Author |
Quotes |
| John R Searle | Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer. |
| John Renmerde | Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. |
| John Ruskin | He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. |
| John Steinbeck | Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. |
| Joseph Allen | The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time. |
| Joseph Henry | The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them. |
| Jospeh Jastrow | In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues. |
| Joyce Chapman | If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there. |
| Julian Huxley | it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone. |
| Julian Simon | The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination. |
| Karl Krauss | Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure |
| Kate Halverson | Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings they gradually begin to seem mild harmless rather engaging little things not at all like the staring defects in other people s characters |
| Kin Hubbard | Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught. |
| Laurence Sterne | There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages. |
| Leo Burnett | When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. |
| Leo Tolstoy | Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. |
| Lin Yutang | Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. |
| Lin Yutang | No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves. |
| Lin Yutang | Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought. |
| Lin Yutang | It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. |
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