Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying to talk to itself, to convince itself of something; it is always moving, noisy.

Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting?

The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

I always have these little internal monologues. You'll get used to them.

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.

When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

You see people on the street, talking to themselves, and you're like, 'What are they talking about?' I'm interested in that.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

I say out loud what everyone thinks deep inside.

I talk to myself all the time - it's something my children have observed in the car.

I talk to myself a lot.

In my head I'm talking all the time.

Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.

Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.

Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.