Human mind Quote by Francis Bacon

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature…

— Francis Bacon

“It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The nature of the mind is like a mirror which has the natural and inherent capacity to reflect whatever is set before it, whether…

— John Myrdhin Reynolds

“For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according…

— Francis Bacon

“The mind must be passive and in some sense featureless so as not to distort what comes into it. If it interferes with its…

— Lee Braver

The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational…

— Joseph Campbell

“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”

— Jacques Lacan

Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet…

— Robert Southwell

“Mankind has invented the mirror in vain, for there’s nobody in this world who looks into the mirror and sees himself as he truly…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The rule of mirrors. So many possibilities. We seek until we find a true reflection of ourselves,”

— Caragh M. O'Brien

“We only know the universe from the point of view of beings with five senses. Suppose we obtain another sense, the whole universe must…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Intuition is only a mirror. It does not create anything, it only reflects. It reflects that which is.”

— Osho