Human Mind Quotes - Page 9

• We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Reality, Justice, Mind

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• Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail on water all around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Thinking, People, Justice

  "Words of Wisdom to Live by: An Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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• Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.

  E. M. Forster

  Creativity, Two, Perfect

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• To most humans, a universe consisting of particles banging about and doing what they have to do seems cold, barren, and without meaning. Meaning, however, is not something that floats in space, permeating the universe like a nebulous, mystical cloud. ... Meaning arises out of the working of the human mind, and therefore exists only in the human mind. The meaning of existence is whatever you want to make of it.

  Milton A. Rothman

  Space, Clouds, Mind

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• Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Yield, Mind, Stories

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mind, Lighthouse, Humans

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• The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Doubt

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• Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Distance, Space, Mind

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2339, Modern Library

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• I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Ignorance, Years

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• Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed. He believed in making people comfortable with these machines, which is why he spent so much time thinking about how to design them a certain way, how to make them so user-friendly and interactive, and why he spent so much time studying the Zeitgeist.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.

  Roger Miller

  Song, Writing, Mind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, the independence of the United States. A remarkable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.

  John Adams

  Memorable, Race, Years

  "A Selection of Eulogies Pronounced in the Several States". Book by D.F. Robinson and Company, 1826.

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• You can access that on many levels and the human spirit and the human mind responds to those themes because they recognise the veracity of them. That they are real things. Sometimes it even goes beyond logic, it's just a sense of something.

  Mel Gibson

  Real, Mind, Levels

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.

  E. O. Wilson

  Reality, Thinking, Understanding

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• To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mind, Theology, Humans

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• Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

  Aldo Leopold

  Fire, Mind, Conservation

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.572, Library of America

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• There's something about having an artistic outlet that is so important to the human mind and development. It's as important as any other subject in school. I think it should be mandatory. It's part of our genetic makeup.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  School, Makeup, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Men, Giving, Mind

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• Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Mistake, Reality

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2009). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.

  Daniel Dennett

  Order, Brain, Mind

  Daniel C. Dennett (1996). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanins of Life”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.

  Fynn

  Grief, Blow, Mind

  Fynn (2013). “Mister God, This is Anna”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world, and, especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind.

  Arika Okrent

  Jobs, Mind, Trying

  Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.5, Spiegel & Grau

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• The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Humans, Universe

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.151, Penguin

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• Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, Ocean, Mind

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• Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Believe, Compassion, Mind

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