Lin Yutang Quotes

I love the human mind.

Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

There is so much to the human mind we don't understand. But, you see, if you have faith, you can do anything.

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.

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

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

I've always loved science, as far back as I can remember. I was very, very curious about how everything worked: the world, the physical universe, chemistry, law. So it was only natural to be curious about how our mind works.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

I think psychology would be an easy transition and figuring out the human mind somehow.

I think that we have basically nothing in the field of human behavior. Maybe that is just a condition of temporary ignorance. But it may be that we are simply not intellectually equipped to develop such a theory.

How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.