Thomas Huxley Quotes

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

The thing that keeps the thoughts coming back is the power that you put in the thought that you can't think of it.

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him

Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.

A mind obsessed with sex is good for nothing else.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

To forget someone means to think of him.

People on the autistic spectrum tend to get fixated on what they think.

Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!

But I really can't and I actually don't like switching off because I worry that I might lose my thread, or something. I fall asleep and I hope to God that I'm going to dream about it, because then I don't have to put it down.

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.