Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 128

“Everyone is indeed imprisoned within their perceptions.”

— Steven Redhead

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

— Bryce Courtenay

If you are alive and conscious, you are probably codependent.

— Susan Juby

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

— John Keats

“If you saturate your mind with positive thoughts, it will sustain you in any situation.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

— Albert Schweitzer

Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge.

— Rudolf Steiner

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

— Oliver Stone

“How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that…

— Sam Harris

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of…

— John Dewey

“We are like cosmic magnets. Our thoughts and feelings send out a vibration, and universal energy matches our vibration by giving us…

— Anella Wetter

What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine…

— Albert Bandura

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the…

— Richard Eyre

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of…

— Francisco Goya

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

We come, in our trust, unto God, and the moment we so embrace Him, by committing our total being and eternity to…

— Horace Bushnell

The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people…

— Dinaw Mengestu

The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our…

— Alan Moore

What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings,…

— Terence McKenna

To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die-to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the…

— Philip Kapleau

Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden…

— Adam Zagajewski

“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so…

— Louis Sullivan

I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.

— Louise DeSalvo

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

— Hannah Arendt

Our job as humans is to hold onto thoughts of what we want.

— John Assaraf

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

— Victor Hugo

I know who I am but I don't know what people thought about me.

— Ishfaq Nabi

“There's nothing more useless than a mind filled with someone else's thoughts.”

— Laurie Gray

Things are not what we thought they were, and people are not what we assume them to be.

— Senoraroy

“positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.” Tia”

— Otakara Klettke

It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.

— Gloria Grahame

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

— Jean Houston

“A thinking child cannot conform. Thought does not bow to authority.”

— Ayn Rand

Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.

— Alison Jolly

Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.

— Sri Chinmoy

“I think a beautiful mind is a imaginative one. Free of social pollutions or boring restrictions of thought.”

— Zachary Koukol

If we are capable of changing our thoughts , we can change how we feel and respond to a situation.

— Senora Roy

Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.

— Ernest Holmes