Thomas Willis quotes
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“To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.”
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“Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.”
-- Thomas WillisSource : "Psychological problems in mental deficiency" by Seymour B. Sarason, p. 211, 1969.
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“Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding”
-- Thomas WillisSource : Thomas Willis (1685). “The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick”, p.490
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“I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power”
-- Thomas Willis
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“I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.”
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“I sold my soul to the devil in L.A”
Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011
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