Human Mind Quotes
519 quotes by 372 authors
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You cannot stop the human mind from working.
— Joseph Murray
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We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we…
— Johannes Kepler
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Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it…
— Max Muller
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To the human mind there is something almost illogical in the assertion that God became a man. It is like speaking about a square circle.…
— Ralph P. Martin
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I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life…
— Norman Cousins
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We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and…
— Maria Montessori
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Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
— Satyajit Ray
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Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all…
— Loren Eiseley
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Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you…
— Andy Weir
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To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any…
— Samuel Johnson
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
— Samuel Johnson
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Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth,…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth…
— John Stuart Mill
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The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human…
— Konrad Lorenz
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The human soul is very much older than the human mind.
— Konrad Lorenz
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The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have…
— Remy de Gourmont
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