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  • Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

    Believe   Men   Stupidity  
  • We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens.

    Song   Heaven   Bird  
    TV Mini-Series "Cosmos", 1980.
  • Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is formed slowly, but it preserves every principle which it has once acquired; it grows and strengthens itself incessantly in the midst of the many variations and errors of the human mind. It's chief attribute is clearness; it has no marks to express confused notations. It brings together phenomena the most diverse, and discovers the hidden analogies which unite them.

    Confused   Errors   Space  
    Joseph Fourier (2007). “The Analytical Theory of Heat”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

    Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.160, Simon and Schuster
  • Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

  • I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.106, Rajpal & Sons
  • Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.

  • Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It's like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it's hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you've gained all the experiences it had.

  • Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.

    Mind   Way   Mazes  
  • The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

    Mind   Action   Free Will  
    Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.382, Wildside Press LLC
  • To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

    Hands   Mind   Guilt  
    Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.47
  • Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

    Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
  • First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.

    Nature   Mind   Firsts  
  • The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind at work, spinning symbolism and abstraction in a way that only Homo sapiens is capable of doing.

    Richard Leakey (2008). “The Origin Of Humankind”, p.124, Hachette UK
  • Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing.

  • Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

    "Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2011.
  • Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

    Believe   Math   Order  
    "Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics". Book by George F. Simmons, 1992.
  • Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

    John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.214, University of Virginia Press
  • There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

    Noam Chomsky (2006). “Language and Mind”, p.90, Cambridge University Press
  • 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.

    Simple   Mind   Taste  
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.51, University of Chicago Press
  • Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an inquisitive urge. By noticing relationships in the results of his observations, he attempts to order and to explain the infinite variety of phenomena that at first sight may appear to be chaotic.

    Science   Men   Fire  
    "The Scientific Character of Geology". The Journal of Geology, Vol. 69, No. 4, p. 454, July 1961.
  • As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of the human mind and spirit, so light can be used visually to express the mind and spirit.

  • Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.

  • 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?

    Confusion   Design   Mind  
  • The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

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

    Willis W. Harman, Institute of Noetic Sciences (1988). “Global mind change: the promise of the last years of the twentieth century”
  • It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Mind  
    'The Leningrad Notebooks' (c.1735-c.1750) in T. Besterman (ed.) 'Notebooks' (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455
  • In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don't see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns.

    Years   Mind   Labels  
    Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org
  • Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

    ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”
  • Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

    Men   Mind   Needs  
    Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing
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