Nancy Pearcey Quotes

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we are at no loss to perceive that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things

The human mind cannot grasp the causes of phenomena in the aggregate. But the need to find these causes is inherent in man’s soul. And the human intellect, without investigating the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions of phenomena, any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, snatches at the first, the most intelligible approximation to a cause, and says: This is the cause!

Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think that's a universal predicament.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

To think that everybody's like you is silly.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

The world begins with what we believe.

Everything is but what we think it.

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.

Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y.

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.