Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

- Ashvaghosha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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Ashvaghosha

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia