Quotes About Human Minds

#1. I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#2. Human minds are soft and easy to bend and mold. Most will just follow, never questioning. They are like sheep being led to slaughter.

Cameo Renae

#3. There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.

Alfred Russel Wallace

#4. There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it's really true: I should have stayed home.

David Rakoff

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

Louisa May Alcott

#6. Human minds are limitless, like space. It may be foolish for a person to even try to deliberately affect another person's mind.

Fuyumi Soryo

#7. The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

Frank Herbert

#8. In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination?

Martin Guevara Urbina

#9. Human emotions are so foolish to them, and human minds and hearts so fragile.

Cassandra Clare

#10. Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.

Ram Dass

#11. 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.

Tim Berners-Lee

#12. machine learning algorithms are modeled in many ways on human minds,

Brett Lantz

#13. To create exponential growth in health care, we need to put tremendous resources and focus behind the best human minds working in this field.

Bill Maris

#14. There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.

Dalai Lama XIV

#16. I'd forgotten that human minds are easy to shatter as eggshells," Rhysand said, and ran a finger across the base of my throat. I shuddered, my eyes burning. "Look at how delighful she is - look how she's trying not to cry out in terror. It would be quick, I promise.

Sarah J. Maas

#17. Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

Drake

#18. Religion is not God himself or herself. It is a system of teaching about God, an explanation of God's way to human minds. But God doesn't need explanations to exist.

Ilchi Lee

#19. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

George Orwell

#20. When you think with your human minds and act with your human bodies, you'll get human results left and right all the time. It's logical! But when you think and act from your soul, when you live this life like it's already your eternal life, you are able to do so much more.

Sean Patrick Brennan

#21. The elegance and functionality of the structure lay out before him, as beautiful and simple and effective as a leaf or a root cluster. To have something so much like the fruits of evolution, but designed by human minds, was

James S.A. Corey

#22. There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Samuel Richardson

#23. Certainly no one can deny that we have such an idea of God in ourselves unless they think that there is no knowledge at all of God in human minds.

Rene Descartes

#24. Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

Madame De Stael

#25. This was made for you, I think. For the person you're going to become.
A weapon to fight Death, in its form as the shadow of despair that falls on human minds and drains away their hope for the future.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#26. Reality exists independent of human minds, but our understanding of it depends upon the beliefs we hold at any given time.

Michael Shermer

#27. This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Aberjhani

#28. One constant has prevailed, though, throughout all theories. There must indeed be a mysterious Holy Spirit which has an exact and intimate relation to Christ, which can indwell in human minds, guide and inform them, and even express itself through those humans, even without their awareness.

Philip K. Dick

#29. There are spiritual patterns at work in the universe and these announce themselves with impressive regularity wherever human minds and hearts attempt to attune themselves to the cosmos in all its radiant dimensions.

Ken Wilber

#30. Whenever God revealed himself to be seen by the fathers, he never appeared as he is in himself but as he could be understood by human minds. Since

John Calvin

#31. The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

John Muir

#32. I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.

Ramez Naam

#33. It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

C.S. Lewis

#34. Madness it is to hope that human minds
can ever understand the Infinite
that comprehends Three Persons in One Being.
Be satisfied with quia unexplained,
O Human race! If you knew everything,
no need for Mary to have borne a son.

Dante Alighieri

#35. Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

Jonathan Gottschall

#36. The truth remains itself, even the human minds cannot see it.

Marieta Maglas

#37. This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

Neal Stephenson

#38. What ignorance there is in human minds.

Ovid

#39. Human minds are not equipped to face the realities of nonmaterial existence on this sphere. It is too much for any mortal to bear for long." Again

Terry Brooks

#40. The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#41. His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

Terry Pratchett

#42. Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.

Rose Tremain

#43. Until we align our minds with our souls,
we will continue to grieve for our highest selves as individuals, a society, and as a world family.

Leta B.

#44. The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations.

Thomas Parker Boyd

#45. Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle - like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

Dan Brown

#46. Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human shell. Make them pay attention. Set fire to the soul. Anything less is an abomination to creation.

Susan Marie

#47. If we get total certainty, we get ... bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

Tony Robbins

#48. History is, after all, something that happened to people. No 'force' whether economic or political can act except as it acts through the minds and bodies of human beings.

Priscilla Smith Robertson

#49. Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

Brigham Young

#50. The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds, bewildered, torturing one another in their stupidity, yet one and all in some unique manner, beautiful.

Olaf Stapledon

#51. Let's look at human interactions. I really believe that there is a way for us to settle disputes nonviolently, using our minds, using all of that was given to us.

Lenny Kravitz

#52. To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

Benjamin Franklin

#53. For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But the reality is that there are many different kinds of minds. And that's a very good thing.

Jonah Lehrer

#54. The goal of the computer is to provide people with the means to extend people's minds and bodies. It is an exoskeleton that expands our human reach.

Jean-Louis Gassee

#55. We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

Toni Packer

#56. I'm convinced that each human being more or less builds his own reality. You are what you believe you are. We make images in our minds of what will be---based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of---

Kristen D. Randle

#57. Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

Rebecca Saxe

#58. Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.

Raheel Farooq

#59. To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

Ma Jian

#60. Go forth, little book, to destroy fear, prejudice and superstition, and help to install Reason in the minds of the human race to be its guide in the affairs of life and its living.

Joseph Lewis

#61. Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

Richard Eyre

#62. Most of the complexity of a human neuron is devoted to maintaining its life-support functions, not its information-processing capabilities. Ultimately, we will be able to port our mental processes to a more suitable computational substrate. Then our minds won't have to stay so small.

Ray Kurzweil

#63. Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

Napoleon Hill

#64. We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment ... [it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.

James Q. Wilson

#65. Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

Nancy Etcoff

#66. Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities.

Linda Thompson

#67. I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature - the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds - which moves me to tears, and I have to brush them away, quickly, before anyone notices.

Ruth Ozeki

#68. You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.

Patricia Wentworth

#69. And, fatigued by the merciless and enormous day, he lost his usual sane view of human intercourse, and felt that we exist not in ourselves, but in terms of each others' minds - a notion for which logic offers no support and which had attacked him only once before...

E. M. Forster

#70. How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.

Nathanael Emmons

#71. I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.

Sarina Bowen

#72. There's a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

Yanni

#73. People's minds can't be a complete blank. Human beings' emotions are not strong or consistent enough to sustain a vacuum.

Haruki Murakami

#74. The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#75. The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.

Heraclitus

#76. A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people's minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.

Criss Angel

#77. How can we know something that surpasses or is beyond knowledge? How can we know something that is beyond words?... We can and do use words to point to all of our human experiences. However, the experience of "God as Agape" is beyond words, beyond the limitations of our minds.

John David Geib

#78. Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind.

Katherine Anne Porter

#79. The first-century Jews who wrote about Jesus had already made up their minds about who he was. They were constructing a theological argument about the nature and function of Jesus as Christ, not composing a historical biography about a human being.

Reza Aslan

#80. Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds.

Munia Khan

#81. All social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#82. Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.

Jonathan Stroud

#83. Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.

Neil Gaiman

#84. We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways to go, all but one bound to be wrong, and the richness of the selection in such situations can lift us onto totally new ground.

Lewis Thomas

#85. The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#86. You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.

Lucian Freud

#87. In the words of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, "Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds.

Alena Graedon

#88. We wait upon finite minds to validate infinite things - this is evidence of human stupidity.

C. JoyBell C.

#89. Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#90. This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our results show that babies' minds are built to look for such rules - even without being told.

Gary Marcus

#91. The highest reputation in every department of human exertion is reserved for minds of one faculty, where no rival powers divide the empire of the soul, and where there is no variety of pursuits to distract and perplex its energies.

Orison Swett Marden

#92. Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds. Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity.

Toller Cranston

#93. Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.

John C. McGinley

#94. The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#95. Passion is a key to unlimited success. Without it, we wither and die. It drives our hearts, our minds and our souls to achieve the best possible results.

Sameh Elsayed

#96. Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

Idries Shah

#97. The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

Dan Brown

#98. We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.

Sterling W. Sill

#99. It's human nature to set a point in our minds when we feel triumphant and to measure everything that comes after it by how far we fall or rise from that point.

Susan Orlean

#100. Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human ... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

Marge Piercy