Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 95

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes

— Benjamin Disraeli

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

— Anonymous

Life has everything in it. But you only see what your perception allow you to see

— Bruce H. Lipton

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

— Martin Van Buren

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life.

— Catherine Ponder

Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

— Haruki Murakami

The burden of your thought, is also the gateway to your death.

— Jeremy Limn

“Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man, “The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought…

— Roy F. Baumeister

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis…

— Aaron Copland

“Likewise every true thought contains in itself a proof of its truth. This proof is its vivifying effect upon the heart;”

— St. John of Kronstadt

I dont theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is…

— Jill Clayburgh

“I have seen words fly out at the end of thoughts and not return. I have seen things at the end of…

— Ricardo M. de Ungria

“The more vivid the image, the deeper and further away from consciousness the impulse. Possession by the devil, for instance, is explained…

— Sandra Dennis

“I couldn't think about the past, the present or the future. Dani took me to a state of consciousness where these parameters…

— Fox Brison

Obviously the dharma is every breath we take, every thought we think, every word we speak, if we do it with awareness…

— Tenzin Palmo

I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But…

— Neal Shusterman

“The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“Certainly we talk to ourselves; there is no thinking being who has not experienced that. One could even say that the word…

— Victor Hugo

Leave your mind alone, that is all. Do not go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field…

— Michael Beckwith

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The mind is like a pool of water, and rain falls as you age. The water gets deeper, and looks so still:…

— Michael Marshall Smith

You are not your thoughts, and you are not the product of your thoughts.

— Alan Finger

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

— Robert Breault

“The will to live, was his thought, and the thought was accompanied by a sneer.”

— Jack London

We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.

— Frederick Lenz

There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.

— Stephen Hawking

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Think like a man of action but act like a woman of thought.

— Amit Abraham

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

— George Galloway

Wisdom, character, and consciousness conquer everything.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

You attract the predominant thoughts that you're holding in your awareness.

— Michael Beckwith

The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.

— Marianne Williamson

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

— Dennis Weaver

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

— Blaise Pascal

“Thoughts are not the truth. They are just thoughts. They do not arrive from God. Do not give them this power.”

— Sara Alexi

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

— Chogyam Trungpa