Quotes About Thoughts

14 For he is the searcher of the thoughts and counsels of the heart; whose breath is in us, and when he pleases he can take it from us.

Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according to appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is called upon to perform. There

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in cold.

There is nothing in life except what one thinks of it.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts it becomes an epidemic. p901

Be the voice of night and Florida in my ear. Use dusky words and dusky images. Darken your speech. Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking, But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts, Conceiving words, As the night conceives the sea-sounds in silence, And out of their droning sibilants makes A serenade.

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

Public opinion... requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor... Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

Es kommt nicht darauf an, was auf der Bühne geschieht. Sondern darauf, was das Unsichtbare Theater in deinem Kopf veranstaltet.

WI felt I ought to comment on that, but nothing occurred to me.

That's how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a closed door that he's lost the key for. So his memory became like secrets held away from his own mind. But these secrets were noisy things; they babbled and muttered behind the door, and so if he listened closely he might catch a snatch of something he once knew well.

Las emociones secundarias pueden considerarse prolongaciones mentales de las emociones primarias.

La mente es un mono inquieto, saltando de rama en rama en busca de frutos por toda una selva interminable de sucesos condicionados.

De cómo la mente puede llegar a ser un estorbo

Perhaps the reason she was so unhappy was because she thought unhappy thoughts.

when the mind is full, the room ceases to be empty