The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Edmond found it deeply distressing,” Winston continued, “that the human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The power of equations lies in the philosophically difficult correspondence between mathematics, a collective creation of human minds, and an external physical… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comforts they endow it… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The human mind has limits. We can only remember so many things; we can really only concentrate on one thing at a… — Jeff Sutherland Copy Share Image
“She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They… — Kate Furnivall Copy Share Image
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve,… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply… — Max Müller Copy Share Image
“For great changes in the human mind are terrible. As we realize them we realize the limitless possibilities of sinister deeds that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see,… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The term spirit might have evolved in a mystical fashion, but in today’s civilized and thinking society, it refers to simply your… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The technology is here; it’s never been easier to communicate and collaborate with people anywhere, any time. But that still leaves a… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Charity is the filthiest invention of the human mind: first you steal what belongs to everyone; then you use the law and… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“That’s what it’s like to be a prisoner of anything. You want your freedom until you get it, then you feel bare… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“It is instructive to note that different cultures "discovered" completely different constellations in the sky, a fact that is more consistent with… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of… — Christmas Humphreys 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
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain — there is nothing in… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you start really thinking about the potential of the human mind and its ability to create an entire world while you're… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
“I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
