Top 115 Human Mind Quotes

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

If it is indeed impossible – or at least very difficult – to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

No greater problem is presented to the human mind.

What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish.

Science fiction encourages us to explore… all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters.

I’ve studied psychology. I’m fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.

It’s always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make of it just so we can believe we understand what’s going on.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

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

Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it’s craving for more.

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.

One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

I like the human mind and how messed up it is.

It’s amazing how much the human mind and body can do and achieve.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

The march of the human mind is slow.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

I like the human mind and how messed up it is.

Problems only exist in the human mind.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

The human mind, as it turns out, is messy.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

It’s true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

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.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

It’s really amazing how the human mind and body can adapt to new environments. How the once incredible can become so normal.

I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain – that’s what I really think has happened here.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The dogma of woman‘s complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

If you look at it closely, ‘Mankatha’ is a politically incorrect film. It explores the darker side of the human mind, and I think, while watching it, people are, in a sense, redeeming themselves of their own guilt.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

The dogma of woman‘s complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.

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.

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.

The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Once the notion of time travel starts to come naturally to the human mind, it is supremely easy to assimilate it into our mode of thinking.

There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it’s the only thing that I can really know, I guess.

When looking through the spiritual eye, or the third eye encased within the human mind, one can see vividly beyond the ken of human eyesight, beyond the material atom, and into the future, thereby transcending the limitations of time and space.

When looking through the spiritual eye, or the third eye encased within the human mind, one can see vividly beyond the ken of human eyesight, beyond the material atom, and into the future, thereby transcending the limitations of time and space.

Human mind has way too many shades. It would be so boring if this world was all sugar and gloss, just happy, colourful lives. People singing songs is not always the reality. Just like happiness and love, people also feel wrath, jealousy and vengeance!

There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.

If you will give the matter a moment’s thought, you’ll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is ‘important’ in the sense of being ‘worthy of being known.’

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

The question now afloat in the world respecting ‘things as they are’ is the most interesting that can be presented to the human mind. While one party pleads for reformation and change, the other extols in the warmest terms the existing constitution of society.

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.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

The human mind and body remains the most complex, powerful machine on the planet, and we will adapt and thrive in a world of accelerating technological change.

It’s amazing how much the human mind and body can do and achieve.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

The human mind has infinite capacity to rationalize, and evil characters just push that boundary a bit. Whatever they’re doing, they think it makes sense to do it, and they think they have a good reason to do it. In short, they feel justified.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it’s very fragile.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Science fiction encourages us to explore… all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

The human mind, as it turns out, is messy.

Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the human mind can conceive that is not possible of accomplishment. The thing to do is to make up your mind what you are going to drive for, and let nothing stand in the way of its ultimate accomplishment.

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.