#thoughts

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ↗

— Plato

#awake #dream #how #moment #our

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! ↗

— Alexander Pope

#brain #chain #chambers #countless #hidden

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#author #being #both #funeral #i

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain. ↗

— Keith Richards

#been #brain #especially #experience #flying

As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#aware #care #childhood #course #feelings

For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources. ↗

— James Rollins

#always #arises #best #bring #close

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts. ↗

— Robert Barany

#certain way #facts #interpretation #other #scientists

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#burners #conceal #concealing #ever #evidence

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#breathe #burn #thoughts #words

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. ↗