Human Mind Quotes

519 quotes by 372 authors

I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them… — Howard Gardner
People do lie to themselves, and they get away with it because every action affirms and reaffirms their perception. That's the power of the human… — Vicki Pettersson
It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing,… — Graham Greene
We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the… — Mark Millar
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. — Frank Herbert
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection,… — Thomas Wolfe
...but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power... — Jane Austen
Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human… — Brandon Sanderson
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. — Jules Verne
The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragileâ€”it takes only a single moment of pure terror to… — Alexander Gordon Smith
This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. — Neal Stephenson
The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed,… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind. — Woody Allen
Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps,… — Isaac Asimov
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction… — C.S. Lewis
Thereâ€™s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you donâ€™t go… — Terence McKenna
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation. — Cinda Williams Chima
There is so much to the human mind we don't understand. But, you see, if you have faith, you can do anything. — Rachel Joyce

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