Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of…

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

— Steven Pinker

The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a…

— Isaac Bonewits

As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was…

— James Gleick

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.…

— Toni Morrison

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of…

— Daniel Webster

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and…

— Murray Bookchin

The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did…

— Francis Galton

Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created.

— Mike McCue

Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect…

— Alice Hegan Rice

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

— Edward Said

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so…

— Annie Besant

Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of light. It…

— Anthony Standen

We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too.

— Edward Young