Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

- Bernanos, Georges

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Steere, Bishop

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Voltaire

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Butterworth, Eric

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Barzan, George

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.