Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 112

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man still lacks depth perception.”

— Mike Whitworth

Good thoughts are important for success but Expecting that thoughts alone can bring success is absurd.

— Senoraroy

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

— Karl Marx

“What is held real is based upon personal beliefs that drive perception.”

— Steven Redhead

“an unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.”

— David Deutsch

Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

— Mason Cooley

When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

I'm not one to go down that road to say I have some kind of social consciousness.

— Paolo Nutini

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think I thought a thought I thought I wasn't thinking but I think I didn't think the thought I thought I…

— Sarah Moores

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

Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is…

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Harry S Truman

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

— Frederick Lenz

“It struck me as odd that it had taken me so long to reach a feeling of sureness that there was something…

— Marion Milner

“humans use to support human superiority is that supposedly only Homo sapiens have a conscious mind. Different from soul, the mind is…

— GBF Summary

Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you…

— Rhonda Byrne

“because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events…

— William Hirstein

“beliefs and perceptions are subconscious states of being. They start with thoughts and feelings that you think and feel over and over,…

— Joe Dispenza

“I've noticed and experienced, it is our perception based on what we have learned, read and on what we believe, that shapes…

— Nathaniel

Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have…

— Edgar Mitchell

Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began.

— David Bohm

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.

— Leonid Andreyev

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

— Thomas More

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

— Byron Katie

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

— Anonymous

Whatever we fix our thoughts upon or steadily focus our imagination upon, that is what we attract.

— Claude M. Bristol

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.

— Li Shan

Your thoughts become your words and your attitudes. Where the mind goes, the man follows.

— Joyce Meyer

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

— Julian Jaynes

“He has the look of a mighty mind, whose thoughts spin hidden beneath the impassive surface.”

— Rae Carson

Victory lies in your thoughts accompanied by actions towards your goal.

— Lawrence Mudau

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.

— Frank A. Clark

I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson