Quotes About Thoughts

Like tormenting love, some thoughts are so antifragile that you feed them by trying to get rid of them, turning them into obsessions. Psychologists have shown the irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

Psychologists have shown the irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

Judging people by their beliefs is not scientific. There is no such thing as the "rationality" of a belief, there is rationality of action. The rationality of an action can be judged only in terms of evolutionary considerations.

There is a difference between beliefs that are decorative and different sorts of beliefs, those that map to action.

The problem lies in the structure of our minds:

to show people how lacking in clarity they were in their thoughts, how little they knew about the concepts they used routinely

but because most unseasoned ideas are fragile.

without being conscious of it.

Era livre quem aceitava viver o que havia para ser vivido. Era livre quem fazia dos pensamentos saúde e riqueza, e não uma armadilha para acabar asfixiado.

No a todo el mundo le hace bien la soledad. A ti no te hace bien porque piensas cosas absurdas. A mí, en cambio, la soledad me gusta y me hace bien.

Why not make a fiction of the mind's fictions?

Ideas do matter and do have consequences.

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.

It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts...

I have thought of death, said she - have wished for it - would even have prayed for it, were it fit that such as I should pray for anything.

The sympathies of these two men instructed them with a profounder sense than either could have attained alone. Their minds accorded into one strain, and made delightful music which neither of them could have claimed as all his own, nor distinguished his own share from the other's. They led one another, as it were, into a high pavilion of their thoughts, so remote, and hitherto so dim, that they had never entered it before, and so beautiful that they desired to be there always.

The devoted sister had solemn thoughts of thrumming on its chords for Clifford's benefit, and accompanying the performance with her voice. Poor Clifford! Poor Hepzibah! Poor harpsichord!

And I think, if thoughts are worth a penny, how much less promises must be worth. Especially the ones you're likely to break.

People are vessels," Jeri had said to her. "They hold whatever's poured into them." And apparently Greyson had drained them and refilled them with something far more palatable.

But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.

There are no wrong thoughts, only thoughts that need to be worked through and overcome.

If pennies become worthless, does that devalue our thoughts to less than nothing?

I conclude it would be a good place to be alone with my thoughts, but I should already know that my thoughts are never alone.

I guess we all can't help peeking at our own imperfections, just like we can't help scratching a scab that keeps itching. When those imperfections are pasted across your face like that, exaggerated and magnified, it's hard to find all those good thoughts you have about yourself. If you believe those distorted reflections too deeply, you'll never get out of the maze.