own mind Quotes

“You can fool everyone else, but you can’t fool your own mind.”

“Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is hardly surprising that men and women have done what computers now do long before computers could do anything at all.”

“The dissociation between mind and matter in men and machines is very striking; it suggests that almost any stable and reliable organization of material objects can execute an algorithm and so come to command some form of intelligence.”

“By now my mind was so mixed up I really didn’t know if i wanted to go to the barber shop or to Boise, Idaho.”

“Make your mind up! Get it done! Only you can make your mind up! You’re the one and only one!”

“He couldn’t keep his mind on his work. His commands to the Patrol Cats sounded feeble and faint. The cats seemed to know it and wouldn’t obey. Day by day they grew lazier and lazier.”

“My trouble was I had a mind. But I couldn’t make it up. ”

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”

“I want to pull Finny out of my mind like a splinter so that I can adore Jamie the way he deserves to be adored. And even more than that, because I am a selfish, bad creature, I want to feel that adoration. I want to be free of this guilt.”

“Maybe they’re right. Maybe there is such a thing as being too young and inexperienced to know your own mind.”

“My own mind is my own church.”