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Top 30 Bernard Beckett Quotes (2025 Update)

Bernard Beckett Quote: “Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.”

1. “Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.”

2. “A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.”

3. “I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.”

4. “Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.”

5. “But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.”

6. “This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.”

7. “In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.”

8. “I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.”

9. “I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.”

10. “The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?”

11. “Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.”

12. “Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.”

13. “Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.”

14. “Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.”

15. “Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition.”

16. “Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “Talk is never just words.”

17. “Talk is never just words.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.”

18. “Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “You think the thing you call consciousness is some mysterious gift from the heavens, but in the end consciousness is nothing but the context in which your thinking occurs. Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.”

19. “You think the thing you call consciousness is some mysterious gift from the heavens, but in the end consciousness is nothing but the context in which your thinking occurs. Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, its an evolved machine that we carry with us.”

20. “I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, its an evolved machine that we carry with us.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. Its very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover Gods great plan.”

21. “Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. Its very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover Gods great plan.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “I write with teenagers in mind.”

22. “I write with teenagers in mind.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.”

23. “The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.”

24. “The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.”

25. “Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.”

26. “I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “In the end, living is defined by dying.”

27. “In the end, living is defined by dying.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.”

28. “Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “It is in conflict that our values are exposed.”

29. “It is in conflict that our values are exposed.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “We know how to make mind, it is true, but we are a long way from being able to understand it.”

30. “We know how to make mind, it is true, but we are a long way from being able to understand it.”

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Bernard Beckett Quote: “If the quality of an argument could be judged by the depth of its rage, I would have to concede defeat. Fortunately, I find the opposite is more often true.”

31. “If the quality of an argument could be judged by the depth of its rage, I would have to concede defeat. Fortunately, I find the opposite is more often true.”

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