Charles Tupper Quotes

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

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.

. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.

Just because your environment or living space changes doesn't mean that your attitude necessarily has to change.

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

The interesting thing is that you don't have to know the answers - simply asking the questions and your reflection itself causes the rewiring of the brain.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.

the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

Generally speaking, anything that the human mind can conceive can ultimately be produced.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

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

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in ways that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.