Mental Pathways Quotes

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.