#human mind

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

— Eliza Farnham

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Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

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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. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

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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. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Madame de Stael

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

— Gottfried Leibniz

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

— Margaret Drabble

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