Florence Nightingale Quotes

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

I love the human mind.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

I've always loved science, as far back as I can remember. I was very, very curious about how everything worked: the world, the physical universe, chemistry, law. So it was only natural to be curious about how our mind works.

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

I really do love psychology and philosophy but I'm no professional at these things. Because I love seeing the true side of humanity, as I've continued that, I have ultimately lent towards philosophy and psychology but it is not something in which I try to study.

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.

I'm very interested in the human mind, what's going on in there.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.