Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‚engineering of consent‘ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.