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I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks. -- Louis Leakey
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. -- Carl Jung
The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind. -- George Eastman
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. -- Mark Twain
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. -- Vernon Howard
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. -- Ezra Pound
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. -- H. P. Lovecraft
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents. -- Allan Sherman
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. -- Georg Simmel
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. -- Wilhelm Wundt
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. -- William Osler
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. -- Johan Huizinga
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion. -- William Safire
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God. -- Meister Eckhart
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. -- Ezra Pound
A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen. -- Barton Gellman
It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery. -- Jim Garrison
Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis. -- Hilary Mantel
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. -- Karl Jaspers
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. -- Annie Dillard
The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. -- Daniel Hannan
It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter. -- Neil Postman
Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul. -- Meg Rosoff
Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns. -- Hilary Mantel
We put suffocation warnings on all the - on every piece of plastic film manufactured in the United States or for sale with an item in the United States. We put warnings on coffee cups to tell us that the contents may be hot. And we seem to think that any item sharper than a golf ball is too sharp for children under the age of 10. -- Gever Tulley
Dress is an index of your contents. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
You cannot judge a book by its contents. -- Jon Stewart
You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox. -- Paul Klee
The life must not be easy if it is only rich in contents -- Lise Meitner
Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world. -- Ricardo Reis
The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history. -- Louise Erdrich
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. -- Anatole Broyard
The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government. -- Karl Kautsky
It's rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping. -- Milton Berle
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. -- Sigmund Freud
A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents. -- Debasish Mridha
Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam. -- Ambrose Bierce
The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better. -- Jose Saramago
The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia. -- Christopher Booker
How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false. -- John Ziman
Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see. -- Barbara Fredrickson
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse. -- Lev Grossman
What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. -- Lisa Alther
These are the tears-The tears we shed-This is the fear-This is the dread-These are the contents of my head -- Annie Lennox
The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada. -- Ernst Zundel
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents. -- Karl Marx
Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression. -- Luiz Bolognesi
The forms are part of the mind, or really are the mind, they're just the contents of this universal night. -- Peter Adamson
All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them. -- Voltaire
As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends. Dress is a table of your contents. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen. -- Joyce Carol Oates
A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart. -- Robert M. Hensel
Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs. -- Avicenna
Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire. -- Malcolm Forbes
A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function -- Gottfried Bohm
Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published. -- Patrick Kavanagh
Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them. -- John Updike
A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book. -- Walter Kaufmann
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987) -- Anatole Broyard
[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world. -- Hugh Everett III
If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it. -- Isaac
Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture. -- Edward Hirsch
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss. -- Wendell Berry
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Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed. -- Sai Baba
The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels. -- Kathleen Kenyon
I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter. -- Karen Russell
Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares. -- Susan Sontag
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo. -- Arthur Smith
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.' -- Paulo Freire
Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card. -- August Bier
In Germany I ingested the entire contents of the hotel mini-bar before a show and stuck my fingers in this guy's nostrils because I thought they would fit. -- Grace Slick
I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it. -- Marilynne Robinson
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents. -- Sven Birkerts
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort. -- John Piper
Your mental make-ups are the contents of your everyday thinking; they carry a charge that can either transform, reform or destroy you. Watch your thoughts, they determine your life! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Throughout your life, your inner landscape presents its contents to you again and again. When you are aware of all its elements, you are in continual communication with your soul. -- Gary Zukav
It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery. -- A. S. W. Rosenbach
When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The data on which philosophical theorizing is based are rather the intuited contents themselves, concerning the various thought experiments. At least that is so outside the epistemology of the a priori. -- Ernest Sosa
A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you! -- Billy Connolly
As a first-order approximation, I would say that phenomenality is "availability for introspective attention": Consciousness is a property of all those mental contents to which you can in principle direct your attention. -- Thomas Metzinger
Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty. -- Herman Melville
From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order. -- Plato
The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of Steinitz -- Henry Bird
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month. -- William Fitzsimmons
You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence. -- A. H. Almaas
We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives. -- Thubten Chodron
Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids! -- William Cowper
We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is. -- Arthur Middleton
The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?" Stannis snorted. "Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well. -- George R. R. Martin
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. -- Sinclair Lewis
Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche. -- Carl Jung
The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose. -- William Matthews
Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given. -- William James
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. -- B. F. Skinner
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies. -- Viktor E. Frankl
[On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor. -- Annie Oakley
I rubbed the contents of one bag onto my upper arm on the evening of June 7, just before I went to bed. I thought: Well, it can't hurt. I flushed the packaging down the toilet. -- Patrik Sinkewitz
The contents of the glass don't matter; what's more important is to realize there's a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook. -- Shawn Achor
I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be. -- Mel Torme
Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth. -- Daniel Dennett

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