Jack Vance on Mind
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Jack Vance, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
This page displays 8 quotations attributed to Jack Vance and filed under "mind" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Jack Vance, entry #180789: "The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations."
Attributed to Jack Vance, entry #5759: "The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is."
8 Quotes by Jack Vance on Mind
"The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations."
"The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is."
"We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones."
"Consider the human mind! It is capable of amazing feats when used properly. Conversely, without exercise it atrophies to a lump of gray-yellow fat."
"When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent."
"Your thoughts move with the deft precision of worm-tracks in the mud."
"Sir, your ideas are incorrect in every possible respect."
"You have no concept of Magarak’s reality; you refuse to think; you live by ready-made emotional doctrines—a substitute for thought. What is worse, you try to wrench reality to fit your ideas."