Anna Jameson Quotes

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

I don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.

I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.

I've had that experience of not liking people very much, but having tremendous respect for them.

You can respect a person without necessarily liking that individual.

The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.

I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

People are people. Don't be afraid of them.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

I've never really had a problem with people.

Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity; on the other hand, there are, amongst things which actually exist, certain objects which the mind can in no way and by no means grasp: the gates of perception are closed against it.

Im not the type of person to point fingers at anybody, and I dont want anybody saying anything to me. There are situations where balls are bounced to your feet you dont say anything.

There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.

People can portray me anyway they want because I don’t give a damn… But don’t you analyze me and don’t you tell me what I am until you get close enough to understand what I am. Then you can make an analysis of me. But don’t you dare do it until then.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.