Stanislas Dehaene Quotes

#1. Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)

Francisco De Quevedo

#2. I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe.

Stanislas Dehaene

#3. People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent ... I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

Bo Belinsky

#4. Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

Eduardo Souto De Moura

#5. So the gods," Moash said, nursing his own drink, "were pleased that you solved problems on your own ... by going to other gods and begging them for help instead?"
"Hush," Rock said. "Is good story.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language.

Stanislas Dehaene

#7. Why didn't you say anythin' before now?" ...
"Because you weren't my girl."
"I was. I wanted to be.

Katy Regnery

#8. Life takes turns that we don't expect and even the best of us can end up in a place we never expected.

A Meredith Walters

#9. A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

George Wald

#10. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

Ram Dass

#11. One moment, please. Whom did you wish to see?" Degarmo spun on his heel and looked at me wonderingly. "Did he say 'whom'?" "Yeah, but don't hit him," I said. "There is such a word." Degarmo licked his lips. "I knew there was," he said. "I often wondered where they kept it.

Raymond Chandler

#12. There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

Ouida

#13. I don't know when and I don't know how, but you'll get through this. And you'll kick life in the balls just as hard as it's kicked you.

Hester Young

#14. I now understood that real secrets were lonely. They planted themselves inside of you and expanded, until you felt like that was all you were-a lonely little secret, isolated in your experiences.

Yvonne Woon

#15. Excuse me, pray. Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

Blaise Pascal

#16. One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#17. Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Jean De La Bruyere