.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe — far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.

Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

Your life is constantly nourished by your thoughts. Whatever the direction your life is moving, your thoughts have led you there.

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

I am no prophet-and here's no great matter.

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.