Without self knowledge without understanding the working and functions of his machine man cannot be free he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex and the foundation of intelligence.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence his noblest function is the search for truth.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

With the world as it now presents itself there is something perverse and probably dysfunctional about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome the school-lottery migration the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form whether visual intellectual or musical.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination where they meet in the myth.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way you don't dream like that.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

My mother whom I love dearly has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce step-children dysfunction and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now so I have to get better before I can start another big project.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Virtue is simply happiness and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Anoint v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

One of the functions of an organization of any organism is to anticipate the future so that those relationships can persist over time.

Forgiveness is an act of the will and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Doing things like playing music something that's so natural and basic to human function running around in nature eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic primordial to human beings so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas allowing my true personality to return.