Thought Distortion Quotes

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

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

It's like there's a filter set up in my brain, except instead of making things better, it twists everything around so what comes out of my mouth is totally wrong, totally different from what I was thinking.

It's quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.

The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

"Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

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

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping.

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.