Quotes About Thoughts

When the Bible is viewed primarily as a collection of devotional thoughts, its status as the most devastating work of social criticism in history is forgotten.

She thought a smile that eventually touched her lips.

Availability bias prevents us from setting our prior beliefs appropriately, whereas confirmation bias stops us from updating them for new information.

Conscious experiences range from vivid color sensations to experience of the faintest background aromas; from hard-edged pains to the elusive experience of thoughts on the tip of one's tongue. . . . All these have a distinct experienced quality. . . . To put it another way, we can say that a mental state is conscious if it has a qualitative feel—an associated quality of experience.11

Choisir un film pour quelqu'un est une chose risquée. En un sens, c'est aussi révélateur que de lui écrire une lettre. Ça expose notre façon de penser, ça parle de ce qui nous émeut, ça peut même parfois exhiber la façon dont nous pensons être perçu par le monde.

Nella mia mente ti trovi dietro, a destra, sotto l'osso occipitale. Mi sembra che per te sia esattamente la parte opposta (come potremo allora incontrarci?). Negli ultimi giorni, se tocco quel punto, provo dolore, e una grande rabbia contro di te.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

In meditation, you can watch thoughts emerge from emptiness and return back to that emptiness. This leads first to the realization that you are separate from those thoughts, which we normally identify with self.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim

For example, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) relies heavily on homework assignments, such as keeping track of your moods, thoughts, or self-statements; challenging your assumptions and replacing them with alternative ways of thinking; or keeping behavior, sleep, and mood charts.

Aubrey was surprised by how quickly she'd begun to mentally disconnect from the infinite online distractions she'd used to seek. She had kicked the internet to the curb with a speed and conviction that surprised her, awakening as if from hypnosis and realizing what a prisoner of algorithm her thoughts had been. No coffee, no internet? Thank Christ.

Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.

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That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.

Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

...we should realize that there are three sources for our thoughts - God, the devil, and ourselves.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

The best service you can do is to keep your thoughts on God. Keep God in mind every minute.

Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?

Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?

As I make goals for this year... Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will.