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Quotes About Mind

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.
~ Albert Einstein
Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
~ Immanuel Kant
Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.
~ Amit Ray
The brain has not explained the mind fully.
~ Wilder Penfield
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.
~ Charles Darwin
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
~ Sigmund Freud
With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.
~ Roger Penrose
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.
~ Arthur Koestler
Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.
~ Keith Floyd
Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.
~ Dan Brown
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.
~ Simon Greenleaf
Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.
~ Camille Paglia
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler
I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.
~ Gillian Anderson
Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.
~ P.D. Ouspensky
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.
~ Johannes Kepler
If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore.
~ Peter Russell
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
~ Ben Goldacre, Bad Science
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
~ William Beveridge
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
~ Albert Einstein
The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.
~ Frederick Lenz