Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Russell, Bertrand

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Young, Eva

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Martin, Steve

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Maharshi, Ramana