Mental Interpretation Quotes

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.