Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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]

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Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quarles, Francis

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Byron, Lord

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Steere, Bishop

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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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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Think then act safely.

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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Confucius

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Braden, Vic

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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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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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther