Human Mind Quotes

519 quotes by 372 authors

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. Itâ€™s called… — Dan Brown
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems. — Eckhart Tolle
We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion and philosophy that… — Christian D. Larson
But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't. — Dan Brown
Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that… — Benjamin Peirce
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority. — Unknown Author
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy. — William Beveridge
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. — Norman Cousins
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement… — W. Somerset Maugham
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,… — Thomas Jefferson
Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul… — Calvin Coolidge
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth. — Eliza Farnham
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. — Peter Medawar
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that… — Bernard Emond
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the… — John Jay Chapman
How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source… — John F. Kennedy

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