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

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

Einstein, Albert

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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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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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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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Ashvaghosha

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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