Human Thought Quotes

82 quotes by 73 authors

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both… — Toni Morrison
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is… — Alfred de Musset
The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought. — Dan Brown
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put… — Aristotle
We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest… — John Steinbeck
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from secret… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself. — James Gleick
Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the… — Bohumil Hrabal
Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing… — Vladimir Nabokov
Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shapeâ€”and words help to define… — Jim Butcher
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. — Honore de Balzac
Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe — Dan Brown
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human… — Stephen Jay Gould
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. — Jean de la Bruyere
A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind. — Albert Pike
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being… — Lewis Thomas
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought — Helen Keller

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