Iain Mcgilchrist Quotes

#1. You cannot kickstart a dead horse

Thom Yorke

#2. Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

Iain McGilchrist

#3. No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

John Ruskin

#4. Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

Oliver DeMille

#5. We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

Iain McGilchrist

#6. People always tell me I need to have a kid, and I say, No, I don't. Because I wouldn't have just one kid; I'd have six. I need a huge family. So I just kind of fill my house with tons of rejects and misfits so it feels like I have a bunch of children.

Chelsea Handler

#7. Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.

Iain McGilchrist

#8. The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

Iain McGilchrist

#9. At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#10. Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.

Iain McGilchrist

#11. Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

Iain McGilchrist

#12. However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.

Laurie R. King

#13. The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

Iain McGilchrist

#14. In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

Iain McGilchrist

#15. The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

Iain McGilchrist

#16. Hopefully one of these days, I'll see past all that. Get back to the memories of before, when things are right and it really was just you and me. Back when I was stupid enough to think it would be forever.

Kristina McBride

#17. To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.

Iain McGilchrist

#18. A Life without criticism and status is not a worth living.

Socrates

#19. The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

Iain McGilchrist

#20. That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

Rollie Fingers

#21. I've stopped thinking about it. I don't have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

John Green

#22. The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen ... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

Iain McGilchrist

#23. Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

Iain McGilchrist

#24. We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.

Iain McGilchrist

#25. The Reader [10w]
A poem cannot be greater than the mind examining it.

Beryl Dov

#26. Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.

Iain McGilchrist

#27. I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.

Iain McGilchrist

#28. The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.

Iain McGilchrist