Human Mind Quotes - Page 18

• Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Weakness, Physicians

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.221

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• I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Perfect, Mind, Wicked

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “John Stuart Mill: Life, Life Lessons & Achievements: Childhood and Early Education, Moral Influences in Early Youth, Youthful Propagandism, Completion of the "System of Logic", Publication of the "Principles of Political Economy", Parliamentary Life”, p.25, Madison & Adams

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• This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

  Aberjhani

  Strong, Valentine, Unconditional Love

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Powerful, Heart, Mind

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• The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice

  Mark Horton

  Attitude, Choices, Mind

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• Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.

  Willis Harman

  Believe, Creativity, Mind

  Willis W. Harman, Institute of Noetic Sciences (1988). “Global mind change: the promise of the last years of the twentieth century”

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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 been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, War, Believe

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

  Mark Millar

  Skulls, People, Mind

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• It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Believe, Mean

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• People do lie to themselves, and they get away with it because every action affirms and reaffirms their perception. That's the power of the human mind. that's the power of thought, which is nothing more- and nothing less- than energy. And when you have a particularly powerful mind, extraordinary things can happen.

  Vicki Pettersson

  Powerful, Lying, People

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• I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Mind, World

  Howard Gardner (2006). “The Development and Education of the Mind: The Selected Works of Howard Gardner”, p.166, Routledge

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• The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

  Peter Medawar

  Change, Nature, New Beginnings

  "The Art of the Soluble". Book by Peter Medawar, 1967.

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• If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Simple, Mind, Taste

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

  Terry Pratchett

  Anchors, Common Sense, Flying

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Thud!: (Discworld Novel 34)”, p.405, Random House

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• Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Soul, Feelings, Mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.76, Orchises Press

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• There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fall, Mind, Stories

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.

  David Rakoff

  Regret, Home, Numbers

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• 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 character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed on him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Men, Ideas

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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

  Mind, Action, Free Will

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.382, Wildside Press LLC

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• The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

  Jim Butcher

  People, Psychology, Mind

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin

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• Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

  Graham Greene

  Animal, Mind, Despair

  Graham Greene (1990). “The power and the glory”, Viking Pr

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• Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Faith, Art, Blessed

  Ernst Haeckel (1887). “The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes: A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular”

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• Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain — there is nothing in the whole system of laws of physics that cannot be deduced unambiguously from epistemological considerations.

  Arthur Eddington

  Knowledge, Science, Law

  "Relativity theory of protons and electrons".

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• We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.

  Johannes Kepler

  Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

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• But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.

  George Herbert

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

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