Human Mind Quotes - Page 23

• All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Religious, Roots, Political

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• Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Mind, Enmity, Next

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2048, Delphi Classics

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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

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Death, Thinking, Mind

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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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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• 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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• 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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• An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.

  John D'Agata

  Track, Mind, Evolution

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Strong, Mind, Patterns

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.

  Judy Woodruff

  Jobs, Dark, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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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• There is no order of things except in the human mind.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Order, Mind, Humans

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• We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

  Napoleon Hill

  Discovery, Ideas, Waiting

  Napoleon Hill (1960). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built”

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• A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the power of story on the human mind is such that anecdote is often more persuasive than numbers. That's why news stories often concretize the impact of a change in government policy by following the story of one person.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Mind, Reason, Persuasive

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.

  Douglas Harding

  Thinking, Mind, Philosopher

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• ...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

  Greg Iles

  Ocean, Heart, Mind

  Greg Iles (1999). “The Quiet Game”, p.36, Penguin

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• The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Darkness, Mind, Clarity

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• I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?

  Jef Raskin

  Confusion, Design, Mind

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• Like kindness, a smile from the heart not only purifies the human mind but also illumines the human heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Kindness, Heart, Mind

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