Cognitive Influence Quotes

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.

Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.

What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect In this most profound way, we are held responsible for every action, thought, and feeling, which is to say, for our every intention.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

I think with my right hand.

With our thoughts we make the world.

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.

Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.

The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates, grafts itself on to, the mind of him who it refutes, among other contiguous ideas, with the aid of which, counter-attacking, he complements and corrects it; so that the final verdict is always to some extent the work of both parties to a discussion.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you.