Gary Marcus Quotes
Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.
Quotes to Explore
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I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
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Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
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Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.
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Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
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We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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But you can't stop knowing something, can you?
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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
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A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.
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All the guys on 'Breaking Bad' are really gentle and gorgeous creatures.
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But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
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The unity of Christendom is not a luxury, but a necessity. The world will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered. We must have unity, not at all costs, but at all risks. A unified Church is the only offering we dare present to the coming Christ, for in it alone will He find room to dwell.
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Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.
