Human Mind Quotes - Page 13

• The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

  Terry Riley

  Book, Mind, Incredibles

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• Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

  Ezra Cornell

  Iron, Mind, Rust

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• You cannot stop the human mind from working.

  Joseph Murray

  Mind, Humans

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• We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens.

  Johannes Kepler

  Song, Heaven, Bird

  TV Mini-Series "Cosmos", 1980.

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• Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.

  Max Muller

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.33, Book Tree

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• The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Soul, Mind, Spirituality

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• The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Self, Mind

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.22, Broadway Books

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• The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Tangled, Perception, Mind

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• Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve

  Napoleon Hill

  Dream, Believe, Perception

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2016). “Conceive it! Believe It! Achieve it!”, p.86, Jaico Publishing House

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• To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Mean, Mind

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• Problems only exist in the human mind.

  Anthony de Mello

  Learning, Knowledge, Thinking

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• Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.

  John Hutchinson

  Faith, Offering, Doubt

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• The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Games, Giving

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• There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.

  Kate Mosse

  Writing, Echoes, Mind

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• The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Soul, Mind, Body

  Baruch Spinoza (2002). “Spinoza: The Complete Works”, p.374, Hackett Publishing

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• It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

  Arthur Eddington

  Law, Mind, May

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Philosophy of Physical Science: Tarner Lectures (1938)”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

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• Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. . . . Where it reaches its highest development, in the human mind, we forget it completely. . . . So important does nature regard this unseen combustion . . . that a starving man's brain will be protected to the last while his body is steadily consumed.

  Loren Eiseley

  Nature, Men, Animal

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• Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.

  Simon McBurney

  Mind, Theatre, Glimpse

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• They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Mind, Literature

  1869 Of Trevelyan's paranoia about his wife's fidelity. He Knew He Was Right, ch.38.

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• All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.

  Max Weber

  Reality, Mind, Important

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.104, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind.

  Christmas Humphreys

  Thinking, Radio Waves, Mind

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• The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Appreciate, Mind, Firsts

  Joseph Wood Krutch (2010). “The Desert Year”, p.268, University of Iowa Press

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• The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless we retreat to simpler lives and even to the ways of our ancestors. What these people fail to realize is that we cannot go back to those ways and those days. Furthermore, for all our difficulties, life today is far better for more people and the possibilities for the future can be brighter than ever if we develop not only new knowledge, but a greater faith and confidence in the human mind and spirit.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  People, Mind, Doubt

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• I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

  Keith Barry

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mind

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• First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Nature, Mind, Firsts

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