It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“For grey matter, there is no black and white. If you think in black and white, then you do not use enough… — Petek Kabakci Copy Share Image
My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
“I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate -- even when prospects seem most… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
You can access that on many levels and the human spirit and the human mind responds to those themes because they recognise… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries - the notion that, with the… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our… — Gary Marcus Copy Share Image
Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments,… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
“Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“We look back through countless millions of years and see the great will to live struggling out of the intertidal slime, struggling… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
“Humans are most imaginative when they need a means of self-destruction. If the world existed in an overflowing amount of happiness; a… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Does evil come from inside ,from the dark depths of the human soul or does it come from outside ,from the objective… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book. — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce… — Tobin Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle. — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes.… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come… — Francois Englert Copy Share Image
Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The more that the human mind is enlightened, the more desirous it becomes of farther acquisitions in knowledge. The” — Alexander Stewart Copy Share Image
“Only the human mind, unspoiled by the officially structured education and the authority opinions on different subjects, can produce an original thinker.… — Boris Zubry Copy Share Image
All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the… — John Christopher Copy Share Image
“What if the images of people sprouting wings are inaccurate, merely an attempt by the human mind to understand what it wasn't… — M.M. Lake Copy Share Image