Human Mind Quotes - Page 16

• We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. [And] it's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Mind, Roles, Why We Are Here

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• Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there is never a lack of mathematicians for the job of transforming delectable ingredients into a dish that tastes like a damp blanket.

  James R Newman

  Jobs, Adventure, Math

  James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2414, Рипол Классик

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• The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.

  Aleksis Kivi

  Love Is, Fire, Sky

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• The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Understanding, Mind, Faculty

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.9

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• The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US.

  Nancy Kline

  Reality, Ideas, Brain

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• Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but they cannot completely ignore their physical needs. It is for this reason that I have always stressed the importance of combining both mental and the material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Mind, Stressed

  Dalai Lama, Herbert Benson, Robert Thurman, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman (2012). “MindScience: An East-West Dialogue”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Moving, Past, Thinking

  Sri Aurobindo (2000). “Essays on the Gita”, p.562, SriAurobindoAshram Publication Dept

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• A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but it will help the actual mind to approximate that ideal.

  Harold Jeffreys

  Mind, Details, Helping

  Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.421, OUP Oxford

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• Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Character, Years, Intellectual

  Herbert Butterfield (1997). “The Origins of Modern Science”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.

  Stanislav Grof

  Interesting, Drug, Understanding

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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• In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, Revolution, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “On Liberty by John Stuart Mill”, p.27

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• The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Soul, Mind, Path

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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 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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• There is only one ingredient for innovation and that is the power of the human mind. As long as a company is able to attract, enable, empower and retain the best of the brightest, it will have a play. As long as the leadership of companies ensure that the physically and mentally tired mind that leaves office at whatever 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm or 9:00 pm comes back mentally and physically reenergised and enthusiastic to add significant value to the customer next morning, the job is done.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Morning, Jobs, Tired

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• Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every living creature; and this being singly attended to, people become tender-hearted and sympathizing; but when frequently and totally rejected, the mind becomes shut up in a contrary disposition.

  John Woolman

  Exercise, People, Mind

  John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.3

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• Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

  Robert B. Leighton

  Believe, Men, Stupidity

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• The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

  Simon Mawer

  Mind, Inability, Denial

  Simon Mawer (2011). “The Gospel Of Judas”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process

  Isaac Asimov

  Finite Number, Data, Numbers

  Isaac Asimov (1990). “The Complete Stories”, Broadway Books

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• Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.

  Jacques Maritain

  Art, Latin, Writing

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• This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of the recesses of the human psyche. By masterful juxtaposition of evocative images, poetry, and selected quotes from scholars, Flesh and Blood seems to engage both the right and left hemispheres in an unprecedented dialogue. The result is a multi-dimensional, almost holographic picture of the primordial foundations of the human mind.

  Stanislav Grof

  Book, Unique, Blood

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• Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Drinking, Self, Creative

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• 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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• The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

  Charles James

  Gratitude, Attachment, Mind

  "Queen Victoria's Little Wars". Book by Byron Farwell, p. 27-31, 1972.

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• Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

  Ezra Cornell

  Iron, Mind, Rust

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