Our thoughts Quote by Sam Harris Download Open image “We are all prisoners of our thoughts.” — Sam Harris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Our thoughts Philosophy of Mind Prisoner
You are not a prisoner of your thoughts. You have the ability to control what you are thinking. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history. — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them.… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in the modern… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Your principal concern appears to be that the Creator of the universe will take offense at something people do while naked. This prudery of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Whether or not one likes Huntington's formulation, one thing is clear: the evil that has finally reached our shores is not merely the evil… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace? — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one… — Adam Mickiewicz Copy Share Image
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
