What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea! Resilient, highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate.
Cobb in Inception
19An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.
Cobb in Inception
19No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.
John Keating in Dead Poets Society
4Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.
I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
Change your thoughts and you change your world!
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People spend more time talking than thinking.
As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance
Few people think, but many want to rule.
It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.
Stuff all my problems in that bong and I’m puffing strong
I been locked in my way of thinking now my cuffs are gone
I been locked in my way of thinking now my cuffs are gone
Lloyd Banks - Christian Dior Denim Flow, Album: G.O.O.D. Fridays (by Kanye West)
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
I have always worried about things more than I should.
Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
Cobb in Inception
10Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!
Saito in Inception
1He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
German literacy ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.
Agent Smith in The Matrix
Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go, "that's baaaaad." Robert Frost said, "Two roads diverged in the wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
John Keating in Dead Poets Society
3Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
People say "nothing is impossible", but I do nothing every day.
Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.
You're the weak one. And you'll never know love, or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, surrounded by a-sholes.
(often misattributed to William Gibson or Sigmund Freud)
6To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
Change and stress can make people feel powerless.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
It is not the strong or the smart that survive, but the ones who can bring about change.
Celestia Ludenberg in Danganronpa