Human Mind Quotes
519 quotes by 372 authors
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I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I…
— Dan Chaon
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The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
— Jay Griffiths
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Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies…
— Joseph Murray
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To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.
— Phillip E. Johnson
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Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we…
— Jonathan Gottschall
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Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down.…
— E. M. Forster
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Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into…
— Alfred Armand Montapert
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The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses…
— David Fairchild
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True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
— John Cage
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We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse…
— Robert Genn
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The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly…
— John Muir
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The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power of the same…
— Brigham Young
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I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand of his Maker…
— John Muir
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
— Matthew Arnold
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Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things.
— Frederick Lenz
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Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually…
— Frederick Lenz
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...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where…
— Albert Einstein
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Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is…
— James Gunn
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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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