Human Mind Quotes - Page 8

• I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Ideas, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.194, Hackett Publishing

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• Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a mission no sacrifice is too great, not even the sacrifice of one's life. You are today the custodians of India's national honour and the embodiment of India's hopes and aspirations. So conduct yourself that your countrymen may bless you and posterity may be proud of you.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Army, Sacrifice, Mind

  Subhas Chandra Bose, Netaji Subhas Ashram (Suisa, India), Indian National Army (2004*). “Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and 21st century India: a special number on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose”

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• He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mind, Weakness, Ethics

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrat" by Baruch Spinoza, part III: "On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions", 1677.

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• Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Weakness, Physicians

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.221

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• It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

  Thomas Paine

  Philosophy, Mind, Unison

  Thomas Paine (2016). “The Rights of Man”, p.75, Xist Publishing

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• The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Loyalty, Fall, Two

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.

  Cleveland Amory

  Cat, Mind, Inability

  Cleveland Amory (2002). “The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever”

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• In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!

  Carl Jung

  Giving Up, Men, Ideas

  "Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality".

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• The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, Mind, May

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

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• The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Adventure, Growth

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• For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from a number of experiments casually made, without any expectation of what follow'd; and was only reduced into an art or system, by collecting and comparing the effects of such unpremeditated experiments, and observing the uniform tendency thereof. So far, then, as a number of experimenters agree to establish any undoubted truth; so far they may be consider'd as constituting the theory of chemistry.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Art, Science, Numbers

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• No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

  E. O. Wilson

  Survival, Mind, Technique

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• Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

  Charles Lapworth

  Time, Science, Men

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• Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Faith, Art, Blessed

  Ernst Haeckel (1887). “The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes: A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular”

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• Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain — there is nothing in the whole system of laws of physics that cannot be deduced unambiguously from epistemological considerations.

  Arthur Eddington

  Knowledge, Science, Law

  "Relativity theory of protons and electrons".

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• We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.

  Johannes Kepler

  Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

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• But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.

  George Herbert

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Roots, Evil

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.

  Victor Hugo

  Religious, Future, Science

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• An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Truth, Philosophy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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• Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world.

  James Jeans

  Nature, Science, Men

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.115, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

  Samuel Johnson

  Historical, Mind, Penetration

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.373

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• ...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that we could share in his own thoughts... and if piety allow us to say so, our understanding is in this respect of the same kind as the divine, at least as far as we are able to grasp something of it in our mortal life.

  Johannes Kepler

  Law, Creating, Understanding

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• e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual sense of the word because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insuffiency of the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature." It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality. Sincerely yours, Albert Einstein.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Attitude, Humility

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• Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Science, Unique

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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