Quotes About Thoughts

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can't shut your mind.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They're rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft.

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

He could think in italics . Such people need watching. Preferably from a safe distance.

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

Tiffany's Second Thoughts said: Hang on, was that a First Thought? And Tiffany thought: No, that was a Third Thought. I'm thinking about how I think about what I'm thinking. At least, I think so. Her Second Thoughts said: Let's all calm down, please, because this is quite a small head.

There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another--language was just there to hide their thoughts.

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.

Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage.

Between every rational moment were a billion irrational ones.

That was the thing about thoughts. They thought themselves, and then dropped into your head in the hope that you would think so too.

The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things

An imagination is a terrible thing to bring along.

But a human mind is a great sullen lightning-filled cloud of thoughts, all of them occupying a finite amount of brain processing time. Finding whatever the owner thinks they're thinking in the middle of the smog of prejudices, memories, worries, hopes and fears is almost impossible.

You're hearing things said the voice in Rincewind's head.

Do my thoughts just dream of me?

One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute whazzaam, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like What's it all about, when you get right down to it?

We are what we feel and perceive. If we are angry, we are the anger.

The soil of our mind contains many seeds, positive and negative. We are the gardeners who identify, water, and cultivate the best seeds.

When you produce a thought that is full of understanding, forgiveness, and compassion, that thought will immediately have a healing effect on both your physical and mental health and on those around you. If you think a thought that is full of judgment and anger, that thought will immediately poison your body and mind and the people around you.

Harboring thoughts keeps hatred alive.

The mind is like a monkey swinging from branch to branch through a forest, says the Sutra.