The Human Mind Quotes
The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.
Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things.
Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.
If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.
The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.
A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.
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.
But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.
All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.
Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.
I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
Everyone interprets something in a different way, it's channelled through the human mind.
The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice
Human mind can grasp everything in the universe; but it cannot change everything!
Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!
The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.
To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
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.
There is so much to the human mind we don't understand. But, you see, if you have faith, you can do anything.
The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.
But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.
Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?
