Quotes About Thoughts

when chance is involved, people's thought processes are often seriously flawed.

These subliminal aspects of everything that happens to us may seem to play very little part in our daily lives. But they are the almost invisible roots of our conscious thoughts.

That brings us back to the default mode. "When your mind is at rest, what it is really doing is bouncing thoughts back and forth," Andreasen says. "Your association cortices are always running in the background, but when you are not focused on some task—for example, when you are doing something mindless, like driving—that's when your mind is most free to roam. That's why that is when you most actively create new ideas.

HUMAN BEHAVIOR IS the product of an endless stream of perceptions, feelings, and thoughts, at both the conscious and the unconscious levels.

while your unconscious mind is working feverishly to do all those things, you can relax in bed, recognizing, seemingly without effort, the lighting fixture on the ceiling—or the words in this book.

But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man. —Galileo1

She was thinking of many things, for to her the thread of life was not broken by Death, but kept winding along calmly and evenly.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on it's knees.

But thought they were nice grand words to say...

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit. Perhaps it hasn't one, Alice ventured to remark. Tut, tut, child! said the Duchess. Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?

For instance, take the two words fuming and furious. Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts incline ever so little towards fuming, you will say fuming-furious; if they turn, by even a hair's breadth, towards furious, you will say furious-fuming; but if you have the rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say frumious.

it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are!

And if he left off dreaming about you

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are!

It's all in your head, Alice.

Estás pensando en algo, querida, y eso hace que te olvides de hablar.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.

But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that, it burps.

Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.