T Quotes
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“The human mind is beautiful when, mind and muhabbet (love) are indistinguishable.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“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.”
Source: Lyrical Ballads
“The human mind is full of doubt. But only humans in the silence of their minds can realise they are part and parcel of the whole and reach yoga. The enlightenment. Doubtless awareness. Complete harmony with nature. Absolute state.”
Source: A Girl in the Himalayas
“The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.”
“The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets with¬ out putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.”
Source: The Four Loves
“The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.”
Source: The Four Loves
“The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.”
“The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. —Elana's father”
Source: Enchantress from the Stars
“The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“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.”
Source: Put out more flags
“The human mind is itself a miraculous machine. I am writing right now, but I have no idea how this is happening. I know that my brain is composed of a cerebrum, a cerebellum, and a medulla oblongata, but these are just words. I know that electrical impulses are involved somehow, but that is about the extent of my understanding of the mechanics. And while I at least have an intuition as to how an airplane works, I really have none with respect to my brain. Frankly, lots of what appears on my computer screen is as much a surprise to me as it is to you. I certainly never expected over my oatmeal and English muffin this morning to be writing about Bernoulli's principle today. For that matter, I have no idea why I like English muffins. But I do.”
Source: Q
“The human mind is kind of like a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.”
“The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!”
“The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear.”
“The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.”
“The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.”
“The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism. And the only advice I would offer my fellow eclectics is: "Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.”
Source: Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and we are obliged to follow it along, trying to keep up with it as best we can.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.”
“The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.”
“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.”
Source: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“The human mind is only capable of absorbing a few things at a time. We see what is taking place in front of us in the here and now, and cannot envisage simultaneously a succession of processes, no matter how integrated and complementary. Our faculties of perception are consequently limited even as regards fairly simple phenomena. The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word. The symmetriad is a million—a billion, rather—raised to the power of N: it is incomprehensible. We pass through vast halls, each with a capacity of ten Kronecker units, and creep like so many ants clinging to the folds of breathing vaults and craning to watch the flight of soaring girders, opalescent in the glare of searchlights, and elastic domes which criss-cross and balance each other unerringly, the perfection of a moment, since everything here passes and fades. The essence of this architecture is movement synchronized towards a precise objective. We observe a fraction of the process, like hearing the vibration of a single string in an orchestra of supergiants. We know, but cannot grasp, that above and below, beyond the limits of perception or imagination, thousands and millions of simultaneous transformations are at work, interlinked like a musical score by mathematical counterpoint. It has been described as a symphony in geometry, but we lack the ears to hear it.”
Source: Solaris
“The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
“The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?”
Source: Pastoral Care
“The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.”
“The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.”
“The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed.”
Source: Pew
“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.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The human mind is too apt to rush from one extreme to another. -- Richard Henry Lee”
Source: First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence
“The human mind is unbelievably rich with great ideas and possibilities. Employ it, feed it, challenge it, and it will work wonders for you.”
Source: Business 365: Daily Inspiration for Creativity, Innovation and Business Success
“The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.”
“The human mind isn’t a computer; it cannot progress in an orderly fashion down a list of candidate moves and rank them by a score down to the hundredth of a pawn the way a chess machine does. Even the most disciplined human mind wanders in the heat of competition. This is both a weakness and a strength of human cognition. Sometimes these undisciplined wanderings only weaken your analysis. Other times they lead to inspiration, to beautiful or paradoxical moves that were not on your initial list of candidates.”
Source: Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
“The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.”
Source: Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.”
“The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.”
Source: Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations
“The human mind may know God, and learn of God, though it has no terms by which to explain Him; it may think of Him as Absolute, as Infinite, as Personal, while it may never in this life be able to fathom the full meaning of these sublime ideas.”
“The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.”
“The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.”
Source: Essays on the Gita
“The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.”
Source: Recollections of Sixty Years in Canada
“The human mind oscillates between love and hate only; isn't love just the shadow of hate?!”
“The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.”
“The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.”
Source: MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER
“The human mind registers a false perception of physical reality from the occurrences that make an impression upon the senses. Human consciousness is an orderly organization of human perceptions of the structure and ratio of physical reality, of which we attempt to share by communicating our perceptions and justifiable true beliefs with other people. The infinite fallibility of the human mind, along with the inability of any human being to know with certainty if anyone else shares an identical perception of reality, makes some personal truths forever elusive and uncommunicable.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The human mind’s innate ability to imagine and create ensures that we never remain stalled out in who we are. We constantly seek to amend our circumference and circumstances, craft and redraft our emotional, social, political, economic, and artistic being.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US.”
“The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.”
“The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that perhaps did not exist before. That was one of my great troubles when I was younger, I invented many things that were very fine, but always I was getting into complications. I have had to work very hard to overcome that.”
“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.”