Quotes with mind-bending

Quotes 861 till 880 of 1239.

• 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.

  Charles Horton Cooley
  American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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• 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.

  Evelyn Waugh
  British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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• The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy
  American politician (1917 - 1963)
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• The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

  Sir Peter Medawar
  British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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• The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

  Alfred de Vigny
  French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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• The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

  Paracelsus
  Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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• The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

  A Treatise of Human Nature

  David Hume
  Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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• The idle always have a mind to do something.

  Vauvenargues
  French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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• The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

  Bodhidharma
  semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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• The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

  Harry A. Overstreet
  American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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• The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

  Brian Tracy
  Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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• The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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• The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.

  Arleigh Burke
  American admiral of the US Navy (1901 - 1996)
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• The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

  Henry Miller
  American writer (1891 - 1980)
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• The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

  William Blake
  English poet (1757 - 1827)
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• The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The march of the human mind is slow.

  Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

  Malcolm X
  American activist (1925 - 1965)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unilluminated
• fundamental
• established
• afflictions
• flexibility
• fictitious

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