Human Mind Quotes - Page 11

• The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Book, Thinking, Brain

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A clear sunny day can suddenly shift to thunder and lightning, a raging storm can suddenly give way to a bright moonlit night. The weather may be inconstant, but the sky remains the same. The substance of the human mind should also be like this.

  Zicheng Hong

  Night, Sky, Weather

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• My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged at the turn of the last century. We are a whole century behind in absorbing the leaps that quantum theory made for the human mind.

  Vandana Shiva

  Training, Mind, Lasts

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story by any means, but somehow your brain is keeping it moving in one direction even though the story is taking you in all these different directions.

  Noah Hawley

  Moving, Mean, One Direction

  "Noah Hawley on the Life Span of 'Fargo,' Ewan McGregor's Dual Role, and Adapting 'Cat's Cradle'". Interview with Gazelle Emami and Matt Zoller Seitz, www.vulture.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I met an American lady many years ago, much distant. Then I told her about my own difficult experiences and I showed some genuine concern. She responded, "Why are you so concerned about me?" We need more patience. At a fundamental level, we are the same human brothers and sisters. Then forget it. The human mind is very strange. Like that.

  Dalai Lama

  Brother, Years, Genuine Concern

  Source: www.opti-mystical.com

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• I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

  William McDonough

  Mind, Causes, Crafts

  Source: www.triplepundit.com

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• At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see.

  Deepak Chopra

  Perfect, Brain, Mind

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• Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking, Mind, Humans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you start really thinking about the potential of the human mind and its ability to create an entire world while you're sleeping, I come away feeling like our minds are not remotely understood by science.

  Christopher Nolan

  Sleep, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The human race sees with one eye, the male eye; hears with one ear, the male ear; and thinks with one half the human mind, the male mind. And the decisions we are making show we are not bringing to the agendas, and the questions and the problems of the world, all the resources of the world to solve them.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Eye, Thinking, Decision

  Source: sojo.net

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• When I think about my own work, there usually is one or the other light bulb moment where there is this flash of insight. Where do these ideas come from? Supernatural? Enigmatic? Divine? You can take that any way you like. I think the human mind does a lot of things that we could call somehow divine.

  Ken Ono

  Thinking, Mind, Moments

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.

  Salman Rushdie

  Artist, People, Mind

  Source: pen.org

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• The mental cognitive processes that we're targeting are ones that narrow human beings' repertoire and make it harder for them to learn to be more flexible, to take advantage of the opportunities in front of them. We can have something to help with in areas like child development or organizations and schools, or maybe even how peoples interact with each other, one to the other. We've taken the work into things like prejudice and stigma, because if we can't solve that we have planes flying into buildings. So it applies broadly because anywhere that a human mind goes these processes go.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Children, Taken, School

  Source: bigthink.com

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• An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind. It tracks the evolution of a single consciousness in order to give us an experience - an experience of looking for something and then finding ourselves in a different place by the time we've finished our journey.

  John D'Agata

  Journey, Order, Track

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I want to put it back together now, this artistic expression that contains religious feeling. I want to investigate: What was the origin? What's happened in the human mind? Can we trace back the moment of the creation of human consciousness? And why did only humans gain consciousness, not other animals? So, evolution? I don't know whether or not I can believe evolution. Maybe we wait for another 100,000 years and then apes get consciousness.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Religious, Believe, Animal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the human mind.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Spiritual, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We must recognise - both Muslims and non- Muslims, that the Koran is a text. We need human engagement with that text, so we have to understand that the rulings and the legal rulings are produced are channelled through the human mind, it's an interpretive act of a human being engaging and interacting with a text producing legal results. Because of that it's susceptible to flaws, it is not perfect. Nobody has perfect access to the divine will.

  Mark Durie

  Perfect, Mind, Needs

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Everyone interprets something in a different way, it's channelled through the human mind.

  Mark Durie

  Mind, Different, Way

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

  James F. Cooper

  Mind, Lasts, Ability

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• The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Mind, Prejudice, Superstitions

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.367, Library of Alexandria

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• The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Horse, Past, Engineering

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• I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Roots, Mind, Ease

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• The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Real, Animal, Men

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• History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Struggle, Mind, Progress

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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• The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi.

  Arthur Koestler

  Creativity, Two Sides, Mind

  Arthur Koestler, Harold Harris (1975). “Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70”, Not Avail

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