#human mind

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#achieved #anything #drama #feel #feelings

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. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#caused #conquer #constant #constant flow #country

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty. ↗

— Robert Trout

#certainty #complete #consists #developed #equally

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#grow #human #human mind #mind #most

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#extract #far #harder #human #human mind

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

#day #discover #human #human mind #into

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. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#fresh #great #heavens #hidden #human

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

— Ronald Reagan

#barriers #constraints #erect #except #human

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. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#blow #brain #computer #facts #go

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

— Gottfried Leibniz

#being #counting #experiences #human #human mind