Rabih Alameddine Quotes

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

My mind is always free. My mind is flexible.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

I am mentally bifocal.

Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

My brain is open.

My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.

As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.

The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.

A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.

People's minds can change very quickly.

I think the open mind is the one that's reachable.