Human Mind Quotes - Page 29

• Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Curiosity, Mind, Hunger

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• The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that perhaps did not exist before. That was one of my great troubles when I was younger, I invented many things that were very fine, but always I was getting into complications. I have had to work very hard to overcome that.

  Nikola Tesla

  Thinking, Mind, Overcoming

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• ...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect up to an Ultimate Cause-a Fabricator of all things, from matter and motion-their Preserver and Regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms-and their Regenerator into new and other forms.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Design, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.372

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• Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Mean, Mind

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• I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

  Ken Wilber

  Smart, Believe, Errors

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• There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes the beauty or deformity of a man's character is the choice he makes under which banner he determines to enlist himself. But there is a strong distinction between different degress in the same thing and a mixture of two contraries.

  Sarah Fielding

  Strong, Passion, Character

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• Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Hands, Law, Mind

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• There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mind, Might, Humans

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.150

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• The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Mind, Analogies

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• The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mind, Variation, Humans

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Homer, Euripides, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1929). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search.  Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they never turned.  And the source of it all [is] the human mind.

  Dan Millman

  Dream, Confused, Reality

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity; on the other hand, there are, amongst things which actually exist, certain objects which the mind can in no way and by no means grasp: the gates of perception are closed against it.

  Maimonides

  Mean, Hands, Perception

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.123, Aeterna Press

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• Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Mind, Way, Mazes

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• As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mind, Atoms, Cosmic

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• I think that the theory of evolution is the most unscientific, faith-based, fundamentally brainless idea that ever had the misfortune to come out of a human mind. To compare it to true science is a joke. There is nothing even slightly scientific about it.

  Ray Comfort

  Thinking, Ideas, Theory Of Evolution

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• The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

  Celia Green

  Happiness, Mind, Range

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Writing, Heart

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.23, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.

  Charles Darwin

  Mind, Progress, Skins

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• Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Reality, Two

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)

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• It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more flatly contradicted by experience than the belief that a man distinguished in one or even more departments of science, is more likely to think sensibly about ordinary affairs than anyone else.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Men, Thinking, Practice

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• Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

  Kurt Gödel

  Mind, Machines, Mathematics

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• Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned to the recognition of the immense role abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Play, Mind, Essentials

  "The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art".

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• To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

  Alan Cooper

  Rocks, People, Tree

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• The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Errors, Mind, Quality

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• If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.

  George Washington

  Memories, Grateful, Long

  George Washington (1948). “Basic Writings of George Washington”

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