Human Mind Quotes - Page 28

• When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

  Loren Eiseley

  Men, Light, Mind

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• Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Errors, Mind, Needs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.450

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• Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.

  David R. Brower

  Rivers, Mind, Environmental

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• The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

  Rudy Rucker

  Heart, Mind, Unpredictable

  "Turing & Burroughs". Book by Rudy Rucker, www.rudyrucker.com. 2012.

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• And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

  Stephen King

  Mind, May, Horror

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Hands, Law, Mind

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• We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion and philosophy that tends to make the human mind a dependent weakling. If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do something tangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worth while, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.

  Christian D. Larson

  Religious, Philosophy, Men

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.339, Penguin

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• Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dog, Mind Love, Problem

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.50, New World Library

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• The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, World, Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

  Dan Brown

  Stress, Reality, Ego

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

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• The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here?

  Thomas Wolfe

  Healing, Order, Self

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.48, Thomas Wolfe

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• Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Curiosity, Mind, Hunger

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• The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.

  Scott Adams

  Mind, Window, Delusion

  Scott Adams (2013). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.57, Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC

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• Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Clouds, Shining, Mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Mistake, Lying, Profound

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.199, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Book, Clouds, Air

  Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Believe, Reality

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.31, Penguin

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• The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Intuition, Mind, Twenties

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.

  James F. Cooper

  Law, Names, Interesting

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• Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

  J.R. Ward

  Mind, Suffering, Needs

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.281, Penguin

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• As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Running, Mind, Trying

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “‌‌Bases of Yoga: Art of living”, p.59, editionNEXT.com

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• The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

  John Fowles

  Love, Memories, War

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

  Dan Brown

  Believe, Mean, Mind

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.378, Knopf

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• Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that he thought it most interesting that a calculus which so strongly appealed to the human mind by its intrinsic beauty and symmetry should prove to be especially adapted to the study of natural phenomena. The mind of man and that of Nature's God must work in the same channels.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Beautiful, God, Nature

  "The American Mathematical Monthly: The Official Journal of the Mathematical Association of America, Volume 32". Book published by The Association (p. 6), 1925.

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• There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes the beauty or deformity of a man's character is the choice he makes under which banner he determines to enlist himself. But there is a strong distinction between different degress in the same thing and a mixture of two contraries.

  Sarah Fielding

  Strong, Passion, Character

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