Mark Pagel Quotes

Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.

I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.

I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?

Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.

We all want to believe in the magic of someone knowing what we're thinking.

I wish I could read people's minds.

First begin between selves, set a definite time, at each at that time put down what the other is doing. Do this 20 days. You shall find you have the key to telepathy.

It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.

You can read minds, and you didn't tell me?” Link stared at me like he just found out I was the Silver Surfer. He rubbed his head nervously. “Hey, man, all that stuff about Lena? I was yankin’ your chain.” He looked away. “Are you doin’ it now? You're doin’ it, aren't you? Dude, get out of my head.” He backed away from me and into the bookshelf. “I can't read your mind, you idiot.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

I think telepathy exists, and I think quantum physics will help us understand its basic properties.

I am often able to hear what people are thinking.

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great.

Words are not brains, you know.

Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds.

We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.

one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.