Inner Speech Quotes

You won’t have to watch what you say if you watch what you think.

My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.

[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.

Remember that thought is speech before God.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.

Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.

Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

The words you speak are powerful. Especially the words you speak to yourself.

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.

Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.

To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.