Quotes tagged as "human-mind" Showing 1-30 of 251
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft
“Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
“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, Your Forces and How to Use Them
“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.”
― Pierre Simon de Laplace
tags: analysis, astronomy, certainty, comprehension, data, determinism, eyes, formula, free-will, human-mind, intelligence, lack-of-free-will, mind, motion, naturalism, nature, omniscience, past, perfection, physics, present, science, space, time, universe
“Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.”
― Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
tags: fear, human-mind, indifference, mental-state, pleasure
“The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comforts they endow it with are naively the kind that can be perceived as we humans perceive — nothing more. No: perhaps I will awake to find myself burning in hell. I think not. I think I will be snuffed out. Black is sleep; black is a fainting spell; and black is death, with no light, no waking.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
tags: afterlife, death, human-mind
“The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.”
― Dr. Amit Abraham, Personality Development Through Positive Thinking
“I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
tags: character, human-mind, talents, talents-and-gifts
“It used to be obvious that the world was designed by some sort of intelligence. What else could account for fire and rain and lightning and earthquakes? Above all, the wonderful abilities of living things seemed to point to a creator who had a special interest in life. Today we understand most of these things in terms of physical forces acting under impersonal laws. We don't yet know the most fundamental laws, and we can't work out all the consequences of the laws we do know. The human mind remains extraordinarily difficult to understand, but so is the weather. We can't predict whether it will rain one month from today, but we do know the rules that govern the rain, even though we can't always calculate their consequences. I see nothing about the human mind any more than about the weather that stands out as beyond the hope of understanding as a consequence of impersonal laws acting over billions of years.”
― Steven Weinberg
tags: human-mind, intelligence
“But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?”
― Charles Darwin
“She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They forgot their hands. Her own were small, though strong and supple from all the hours of piano playing, but what use was that now? For the first time she understood what real danger does to the human mind, as flat white fear froze the coils of her brain.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg
“Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.”
― John Christopher, Sweeney's Island
tags: human-mind, morality
“লড়াই শুধু রাজার সঙ্গে রাজার, এক জাতের সঙ্গে অন্য জাতের আর এক দেশের সঙ্গে অন্য দেশেরই হয় না। একটি মনের সাথে অন্য একটি মনেরও লড়াই হয়।”
― Zahir Raihan, শেষ বিকেলের মেয়ে
tags: fight, human-mind, mind-state
“Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well as of insight is exceptional, utterly unique as far as we know, properly an object of wonder.”
― Marilynne Robinson
tags: human-mind, wonder
“ô enfance du coeur humain qui ne vieillit jamais! voilà donc à quel degré de puérilité notre superbe raison peut descendre! Et encore est-il vrai que bien des hommes attachent leur destinée à des choses d'aussi peu de valeur que mes feuilles de saule.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, René
tags: human-mind, human-nature
“All notions of order are a myth, only order of the universe is chaos. Expand your sight and you'll realize, there is order in every chaos.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“Our age could devise a passable replica of a human mind, but there was no one in our neighbourhood to fix a sash window, though a few had tried.”
― Ian McEwan, Machines like Me
tags: human-mind
“Whatever is unknown is thought grandiose.”
― Tacitus, Agricola
tags: culture, customs, human-mind, unknown
“You can code tasks, not consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“If nothing bothers you, it doesn't mean you are stable, it means you are dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“God is a great God. Even when there are technological advances, nothing can ever replace Him or His works. His greatness is beyond what a human mind can ever comprehend.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“God can do above and beyond what any human mind can ever conceive.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“The wisdom of God is an illumination hub. Once it lands on a human mind, light abounds.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“Time is memory.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
“The internet is my second brain.”
― Steven Magee
“I regard the internet as an extension to my brain.”
― Steven Magee
“The human mind, much like a well-oiled machine, requires a consistent and steady stream of fuel in order to fully harness its boundless energy and power. Once sufficiently fortified, the mind becomes an impenetrable fortress capable of extraordinary success and action.”
― Emmanuel Aluko
tags: human-mind
“The human mind, much like a well-oiled machine, requires a consistent and steady stream of fuel in order to fully harness its boundless energy and power. Once sufficiently fortified, the mind becomes an impenetrable fortress capable of extraordinary success and action.”
― Emmanuel Aluko, 500 Life Changing Inspirational Quotes: Your Motivational Daily Dose for Success, Leadership, Courage, Confidence and Love.
tags: human-mind
“Nothing beautiful to the mind than to witness passing of difficulty. Human mind receives episodic happiness, it waits for this phase. In between those episodes is a sequential sadness just to harmonize us musically with happiness. All love for nature and life for this melodrama, life is a true story. Witness it. Feel it. Make it. Read it. As the end approaches, let it go in the end like a handsome guest. Celebrate the moments spent and drop it at the door with your soul.”
― Nazar Ul Islam Wani
