Human Mind Quotes - Page 24

• I think, actually, that it's a really fascinating time in history because the development of modern technology and the photographs the satellites were taking from space were mapping the earth in a new way, making us feel like the globe we inhabit is much smaller than previously conceived of, in the human mind.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Thinking, Technology, Space

  Source: collider.com

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• The power of equations lies in the philosophically difficult correspondence between mathematics, a collective creation of human minds, and an external physical reality. Equations model deep patterns in the outside world. By learning to value equations, and to read the stories they tell, we can uncover vital features of the world around us.

  Ian Stewart

  Lying, Reality, Mind

  Ian Stewart (2012). “Seventeen Equations that Changed the World”, p.9, Profile Books

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• There are huge areas where the human mind is apparently incapable of forming sciences, or at least has not done so. There are other areas - so far, in fact, one area only [physics] - in which we have demonstrated the capacity for true scientific progress.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mind, Progress, Done

  Source: chomsky.info

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• The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers to progress in other domains, just as the properties that enable each child to acquire a complex and highly articulated human language block the acquisition of other imaginable linguistic systems.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Block, Mind

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.

  William Morris

  Flower, Thinking, Should Have

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• ...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

  Greg Iles

  Ocean, Heart, Mind

  Greg Iles (1999). “The Quiet Game”, p.36, Penguin

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• There is no order of things except in the human mind.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Order, Mind, Humans

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• We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

  Napoleon Hill

  Discovery, Ideas, Waiting

  Napoleon Hill (1960). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built”

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• The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

  Charles Tupper

  Mind, Position, Humans

  Sir Charles Tupper (1914). “Recollections of Sixty Years in Canada”, London : Cassell

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• Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.

  William Thurston

  Math, Thinking, People

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• In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

  Edvard Grieg

  Mind, Energy, Depth

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• Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his haste for premature simplification always tends to shut his eyes to one aspect of the truth and to seek a false harmony of thought by the sacrifice of an essential element of reality.

  Christopher Dawson

  Eye, Sacrifice, Reality

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• We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.

  Terence McKenna

  Christian, Taken, Men

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• The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.

  Terence McKenna

  Technology, Years, Mind

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• A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the power of story on the human mind is such that anecdote is often more persuasive than numbers. That's why news stories often concretize the impact of a change in government policy by following the story of one person.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Mind, Reason, Persuasive

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Prayer, Men, Mind

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• Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.

  John Steinbeck

  Beautiful, Teacher, Art

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• There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes it has always been revered as a communication to us from the Creator of the Universe.

  John Ambrose Fleming

  Communication, Men, Mind

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• As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Brain, Way

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Power of Compassion: A Collection of Lectures”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?

  Jef Raskin

  Confusion, Design, Mind

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• The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

  C. S. Lewis

  Color, Sky, Mind

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• The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Darkness, Mind, Clarity

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• Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is
  innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn how to walk,
  talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends,
  even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or
  remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written
  language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and
  skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to
  have evolved.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Reading, School

  "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature". Book by Steven Pinker, 2002.

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• Like kindness, a smile from the heart not only purifies the human mind but also illumines the human heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Kindness, Heart, Mind

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• The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Mind, Fables

  Thomas Paine (1875). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”

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