Human Mind Quotes - Page 14

• Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  Jonah Lehrer (2008). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

  Tacitus

  Hate, Men, Mind

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• We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think about being different from them, about being Tibetan, Buddhist or even the Dalai Lama. I only think about being a human being. We all share the potential for positive and negative emotions, yet one of our special qualities is our human mind, our intelligence. If we use it well we'll be successful and happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Successful, Thinking

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• It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Reading, Effort, Curiosity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.369

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• Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

  Emma Goldman

  Mind, Anarchy, Dominion

  'Anarchism and Other Essays' (1910) p. 68

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• There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.

  Edward T. Lowe, Jr.

  Boys, Mind, Strange

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• Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Mind, Prejudice

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.56

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• Human mind can grasp everything in the universe; but it cannot change everything!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Change, Mind, Humans

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• Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?

  Pindar

  Insecure, Errors, Long

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• When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, Memories, Emotional

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• The thing that I really like is psychology. I love the human mind. I love the choices you make based on your experiences and instincts and your development based on such experiences and so I guess that's why I love acting so much.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Choices, Psychology, Mind

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• The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may therefore deserve to be considered, as a singular event in the history of the human mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Mind, Age, Ruins

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.272

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• No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

  Francois Fenelon

  Hypocrite, Mind, Conviction

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• The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mean, Mind, Gains

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• Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Heart, Character, Grace

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• The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

  Morgan Freeman

  Mind, Belief, Humans

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• The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

  Thomas Huxley

  Expression, Mind, Scientific Method

  "Our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley, 1863.

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• I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Rejection, Mind, Growth

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• You will realize that doctrines are inventions of the human mind, as it tried to penetrate the mystery of God. You will realize that Scripture itself is the work of human minds, recording the example and teaching of Jesus. Thus it is not what you believe that matters; it is how you respond with your heart and your actions. It is not believing in Christ that matters; it is becoming like him.

  Pelagius

  Jesus, Believe, Teaching

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• Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?

  Sebastian Faulks

  Girl, Heaven, Mind

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• I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Clouds, Expression

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• But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Law, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1102, Delphi Classics

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• The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Believe, Inspiration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

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• The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

  Beilby Porteus

  Exercise, Blessing, Joy

  Beilby Porteus (1823). “Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, late Bishop of London: with his life”, p.13

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• If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Weed, Flower, Mind

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