Terry Pratchett Quotes

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

I don't think I'm a weirdo in a bad way. There's just a lot going on in my head.

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity.

I don't think his elevator went all the way to the top anymore, if you know what I mean

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

"It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly."

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

The mind is an enchanting thing.

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that with a lot of people. A lot of memories, and a lot of hopes, and a lot of just dealing with the day-to-day. Sometimes it gets all abstract.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.