Sidis Quotes

#1. Kate, I'll say it like this. Vincent is my best friend. There's not a person in this world I'm closer to. But for the past year, I have betrayed him in my heart every single day because I want for myself what he loves the very most.

Amy Plum

#2. The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

Boris Sidis

#3. The bank balance was Noel Constant's share in the estate of his anarchist father. The estate had consisted principally of Government bonds.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

Robert Breault

#5. Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

Boris Sidis

#6. Some people wanted me to be the Latino quarterback. Some people wanted me to be the USC quarterback who happens to be Latino.

Mark Sanchez

#7. Stop being afraid of fear, let it be scared of you

Munia Khan

#8. Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heartbeat' was my apartment in New York City. 'My Sister' was at my apartment in Boston. I remember places and I remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.

Juliana Hatfield

#9. Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

Boris Sidis

#10. The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.

Boris Sidis

#11. The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

Boris Sidis

#12. Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.

Boris Sidis

#13. The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

Boris Sidis

#14. Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

Boris Sidis

#15. Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.

Widad Akreyi

#16. We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

Anne Roiphe

#17. I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys?

John Shors

#18. His only comfort was he couldn't be mistaken for a dwarf, as he had no beard.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

Boris Sidis

#20. The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.

Boris Sidis

#21. I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.

Kiefer Sutherland

#22. If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.

Boris Sidis

#23. Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.

Boris Sidis

#24. Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Paul Bryant

#25. The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.

Boris Sidis

#26. Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

Boris Sidis

#27. I went for a private sitting with a clairvoyant and got some really good messages off him, but one thing that did frighten me was when he said, 'I can see a lot of fist fighting with you.

Stephen Richards

#28. Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

Boris Sidis

#29. The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

Boris Sidis

#30. The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

Boris Sidis

#31. Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.

Boris Sidis

#32. When a woman tells you to 'Go ahead,' you do not, under any circumstances go ahead. You retreat to a safe distance and observe the situation very carefully. She is daring you to do something, not giving you permission.

L.A. Casey

#33. The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

Mary Stewart

#34. The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.

Boris Sidis