Learning Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“On the other hand, we can all call to mind the case of seeing the same thing many times over and over. Everyone has…

— Tagawa Shun'ei

Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to…

— David Hume

All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is…

— Aleister Crowley

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of…

— William Whewell

We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon…

— Frederick Lenz

“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We are for…

— Aldous Huxley

To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up…

— Anne Lamott

“We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of…

— John Dewey

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

— Marc Guggenheim

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

— John Steinbeck

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have

— John Locke