Human Thought Quotes

82 quotes by 73 authors

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion… — Gary L. Francione
Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd. — Dale Carnegie
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the… — Thomas A. Edison
Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less… — Clay Shirky
Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous… — Isaac Bonewits
It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort, again and again,… — Dalai Lama
External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought. — Swami Vivekananda
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To… — Steven Pinker
Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought. — Dogen
The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And… — Manu Joseph
When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless… — Alexander Pope
Early human thought proceeded by metaphor, — Gerald Edelman
Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate… — Michael Persinger
Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid… — Mikhail Gorbachev
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within… — Murray Bookchin
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the… — Sri Aurobindo
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity… — Edgar Allan Poe

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