Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 66

He with positive thoughts was naturally born to think negatively

— Tivea

Attention is what steers your perceptions; it's what controls your reality. It's the gateway to the mind.

— Apollo Robbins

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

— Jeremy Renner

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

— Marion Cotillard

“To look into the eyes of a cannibal. I turn away at the thought.”

— Carol Birch

Sometimes you gotta separate your thoughts from your feelings.

— Anonymous

“With best thoughts, words and actions we align our past, present and future.”

— John R. Dallas Jr

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are…

— Frederick Lenz

Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did…

— Van Morrison

“Would it be so strange to think that upon death, when there is no newly created consciousness in the continuation of our…

— Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

— Harry S Truman

This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too…

— Anonymous

The predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that like attracts like, consequently, the mental attitude…

— Charles F. Haanel

I think art that confronts dark passages and turns it in a way that develops our consciousness, our sense of identity, our…

— Rege-Jean Page

“Isn’t that always the way it is: if a person’s inclined to look for something, he finds it wherever he looks. Even…

— Nikolai Chernyshevsky

Your life is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not…

— Rhonda Byrne

Replacing it with a thought. I sometimes think, "What the hell. I have four working limbs right now. I'm winning just to…

— Graham Shiels

“know about the brain's hardware and software. How does the firing of a nerve or a series of nerves get translated into…

— David D. Burns

“Stranger: 'Are not thought and speech the same, with this exception, that what is called thought is the unuttered conversation of the…

— Plato

You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it…

— Anais Nin

“The principal enemy of mindfulness—or of any meditative practice—is our deeply conditioned habit of being distracted by thoughts. The problem is not…

— Sam Harris

It’s impossible to monitor every thought we have. Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day. Can you…

— Marci Shimoff

“To some people original thought is a medical condition that leads to migraines”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

— Bertrand Russell

People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.

— Anonymous

Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.

— Ramana Maharshi

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

— Jerome Bruner

You can make really effective changes when your consciousness is free of emotional turmoil.

— Ken Keyes Jr

“Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.”

— Charles F. Glassman

“God is not a person, God is the underlying consciousness in Existence.”

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“Our relationship with our own thoughts dictates how enjoyable all of our relationships in life will be.”

— Noah Elkrief

Someone asked if I knew you a million thoughts falshed through my mind and I smiled and said I used to.

— Anonymous

Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.

— Sydney Banks

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

— Rebecca Solnit

Your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our # thoughts we can change our lives.

— Dale Carnegie

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

— George Soros

“In the same way, if you don’t believe a thought (word) in your mind to be true, it won’t create an emotion.”

— Noah Elkrief