#mind

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#force #impossible #mind #receptive #upon

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#coming #folks #giving #hundreds #i

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#mind #obscurity #out #passion #singling

There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid. ↗

— Ann Richards

#america #doubt #down #mind #people

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#baggage #down #emotional #empirical #how

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#brain #dangerous #genome #idea #implications

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things. ↗

— Billie Piper

#find #friend #i #like #little

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#art #beautiful #come #could #dreams

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#dying #figure #haven #i #life

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. ↗

— Max Planck

#behind #conscious #existence #exists #force