Top 4 Nicholas Humphrey Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Like so many other would-be students of the mind, I had gone to sea to see the world, only to discover that all I was seeing was sea. Not even that: I was down below decks, studying the engine room of mental life, with no clear sense of where the ship was steering.”

— Nicholas Humphrey

2. “The peacock’s gaudy tail does not enable him to fly any higher, but it raises his status in the eyes of the peahen.”

— Nicholas Humphrey

3. “Television viewers, I was assured, expect to be told the truth in “science programmes”. When I protested that in several areas I was not yet at all sure what the truth was, worse still that I was not sure that it mattered what the truth was so long as one way of looking at things made better sense than another, it left everybody confused.”

— Nicholas Humphrey

4. “You respond to sensory stimulation with the makings of an action – never completed – appropriate to what’s happening and how you feel about it. And then you read your own response so as to get a mental picture of it.”

— Nicholas Humphrey

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