Human Mind Quotes
519 quotes by 372 authors
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The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems…
— Sri Aurobindo
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A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but…
— Harold Jeffreys
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Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to…
— Herbert Butterfield
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
— Alfred de Vigny
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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation.…
— Robert Trout
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The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that…
— Arthur E Waite
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All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of science. . .…
— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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There is only one ingredient for innovation and that is the power of the human mind. As long as a company is able to attract,…
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every…
— John Woolman
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The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there…
— J M Coetzee
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In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data…
— Isaac Asimov
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Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing,…
— Jacques Maritain
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The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of…
— Stanislav Grof
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Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
— Terry Riley
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The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.
— Charles James
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Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron
— Ezra Cornell
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