Human Mind Quotes - Page 29

• Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul of the individual. I know of no way that this can be done save through the influence of religion and education. By religion I do not mean fanaticism or bigotry; by education I do not mean the cant of the schools, but a broad and tolerant faith, loving thy neighbor as thyself, and a training and experience that enables the human mind to see into the heart of things.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Heart, School, Mean

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• War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Norman Cousins (1963). “The New Realities The First Richard Joshua Reynolds Lecture at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, Nov. 19, 1963”

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• The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

  William Beveridge

  Peace, Science, Ideas

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• Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Teaching, Responsibility, Preparation

  Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

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• No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Knowledge, Mind, Action

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Introduction, 1960.

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• If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.

  Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart

  Humility, Past, People

  Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart (2001). “The Shape of Irish History”

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• The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Meditation, Mind, Experience

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• There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.

  Kay Hooper

  Self, Hatred, Mind

  Kay Hooper (2010). “Stealing Shadows: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel”, p.31, Bantam

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• There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never fail to take a deep interest. The progress of the human mind is never traced with such a lively interest as through the steps by which it perfects a great invention; and there is certainly no invention respecting which this minute information will be more eagerly sought after, than in the case of the steam-engine.

  David Brewster

  Creativity, Science, Mind

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• Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man to wear the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain forever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Boys, Men, Hands

  Letter to Samuel Kercheval, 12 July 1816

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• The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Europe, Catholic

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• You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Believe, Reality

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

  Margaret Drabble

  Reality, Mind, Bears

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• Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Machines, Humans

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Children Of Dune: The Third Dune Novel”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.

  Marquis de Sade

  Believe, Two, Mad

  Marquis de Sade (2016). “Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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• To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

  Alan Cooper

  Rocks, People, Tree

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• The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

  Alan Moore

  God, Mind, Humans

  "Moore's murderer" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2002.

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• Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task.... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.

  Sarah Fielding

  Writing, Order, Mind

  Sarah Fielding, Christopher D. Johnson (1757). “The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia”, p.33, Bucknell University Press

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• If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.

  George Washington

  Memories, Grateful, Long

  George Washington (1948). “Basic Writings of George Washington”

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• Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned to the recognition of the immense role abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Play, Mind, Essentials

  "The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art".

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• The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Errors, Mind, Quality

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• In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Eye, Mind

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• Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

  David Wallace

  Science, Civilization, Mind

  David Rains Wallace (1978). “The Dark Range: A Naturalist's Night Notebook”, Random House (NY)

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• Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

  Kurt Gödel

  Mind, Machines, Mathematics

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• It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more flatly contradicted by experience than the belief that a man distinguished in one or even more departments of science, is more likely to think sensibly about ordinary affairs than anyone else.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Men, Thinking, Practice

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