Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

- Bentham, Jeremy

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Fredrich

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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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 do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.