Human Mind Quotes

519 quotes by 372 authors

A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet… — Sam Harris
This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which… — Gene Wolfe
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets… — John Steinbeck
People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only… — Haruki Murakami
No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the… — Samuel Johnson
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. — George Orwell
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only… — George Orwell
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people… — Spencer W. Kimball
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is… — H.G. Wells
Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's… — Emma Goldman
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of… — Thomas Jefferson
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. — Aldous Huxley
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine. — Thomas Aquinas
Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He… — Orson Scott Card
Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging… — Alexander Shulgin
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books… — Umberto Eco
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isnâ€™t very much. — Eckhart Tolle

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