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
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
“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
People do lie to themselves, and they get away with it because every action affirms and reaffirms their perception. That's the power… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
“This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“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
“Most Romans believed that their system of government was the finest political invention of the human mind. Change was inconceivable. Indeed, the… — Anthony Everitt Copy Share Image
“Sure one could argue the naturalist's case that the mind experiences an external reality in which it participates. But how can this… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
“The human mind is an amazing thing. It protects us when we can't protect ourselves. Sometimes when we're holding pain and it… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved… — George Washington 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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 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
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
“In the timeless realm where God dwells, which is also your home, the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega,… — Eckhart Tolle 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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“THE MULTITASKING MYTH Studies show that the human mind can only truly multitask when it comes to highly automatic behaviors like walking.… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“The human mind is like a video. This means man lives his life in an illusion from birth. It is comparable to… — Woo Myung Copy Share Image
If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
“Of all the innocent passions which actuate the human mind there is none more universally prevalent than curiosity. It reaches all mankind,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“In this respect the frailty of the human mind is surely proved: even when it seems to follow the way, it limps… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face.… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
“You have to believe. That's what I think. It's not about medicine and all that stuff. You have to believe a person… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and ever renewed ware-emporium that attracts buyers of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image