Human Mind Quotes

• I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

  Bob Dylan

  Future, Past, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

  Edmund Burke

  Emotional, Curiosity, Mind

  Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & a Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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  The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

  William James

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Living the Abundant Life". Book by Thomas S. Monson, 2004.

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• Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

  John Adams

  Education, Mind, Superstitions

  "John Adams: Quotes & Facts". Book by Blago Kirov, 2016.

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• It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Mind, Progress

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.

  Bernard Emond

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

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  We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Life, Thinking, Dying Slowly

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Special Message to the Congress on Education, February 20, 1961.

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• There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain.

  Paul Broca

  Brain, Mind, Groups

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• Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Music, Math, Science

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• The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .

  Henry Ford

  Mind, Realms, Humans

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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• Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Reality, Mind

  George Orwell (1963). “George Orwell's 1984”, p.72, Dramatic Publishing

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• The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Math, Mind

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Ignorance, Thinking, Islands

  The Call of Cthulhu ch. 1 (1928)

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• I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Blow, Brain, Mind

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• The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Happiness, Success, Mind

  The Call of Cthulhu ch. 1 (1928)

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• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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• Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Mind, Investing

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Political, Mind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.106, Rajpal & Sons

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• My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature".

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Law, Feelings

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.341, Princeton University Press

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• ...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Shoes, Mind

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• Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Sadness, Boredom, Feeling Sad

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.19, New World Library

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