The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Since the human mind and auditory system work at several times the rate at which most people speak, as much as 70… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The writer, Katherine Anne Porter, comments in her Notebooks that “[o]ne of the most disturbing habits of the human mind is its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“By a curious perversity, the human mind refuses to behave itself on the occasions when it should be intensely dramatic. It was… — Whipplesnaith Copy Share Image
Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A clear sunny day can suddenly shift to thunder and lightning, a raging storm can suddenly give way to a bright moonlit… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
“Real poverty is when hunger pangs force from my mind all thoughts but those of food. Real poverty is when the children… — Maxine Hancock Copy Share Image
“When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“But if it be true, as every prospect assures us, that the human race shall not again relapse into its ancient barbarity;… — Nicolas de Condorcet Copy Share Image
“It is a simple truth that the human mind can face better the most oppressive government, the most rigid restrictions, than the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“The four had come to an exciting decision" during the six months of the blockade threatened by the authorities, they would make… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the… — Beilby Porteus Copy Share Image
“Science of the kind I criticize tends to assert that everything is explicable, that whatever has not been explained will be explained--and,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
“Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature;… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I do not serve and never will serve the human body. I serve only the human soul - the soul that is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating, second,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“I believed my love would be reciprocated because it was pure. But it wasn’t. Reaction to every action? It doesn’t work that… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
“It has never yet been supposed, that all the facts of nature, and all the means of acquiring precision in the computation… — Marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
“Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe,… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Studies show that the human mind can only truly multitask when it comes to highly automatic behaviors like walking. For activities that… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
I think we all have those moments at one point or other in our lives... when we see someone and immediately imagine… — Danny Wallace Copy Share Image
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs and don't forget to thank Him for His answers. If… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw,… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image