Human Mind Quotes
519 quotes by 372 authors
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To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
— Abraham Lincoln
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We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had…
— Dalai Lama
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
— Florence King
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Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different…
— Alison Gopnik
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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live,…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with…
— Tony Hoare
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus,…
— Baron d'Holbach
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Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.
— Billy Graham
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Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of…
— Eric Kandel
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People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.
— Christopher deCharms
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The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods…
— Bertha von Suttner
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The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless…
— Archibald Hill
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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general…
— Benjamin Robbins Curtis
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The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.
— Francois Englert
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In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.
— Stephen Hawking
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No greater problem is presented to the human mind.
— Annie Jump Cannon
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It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it…
— Arthur Eddington
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are…
— Richard Courant
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What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish.
— David Sarnoff
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