Mental Framework Quotes

People only see what they are prepared to see.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Language is the dress of thought.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Attitudes are more important than facts.

I think books make you think in a different way than movies and documentaries.

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.