Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

- Buddha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Secker, Thomas

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Voltaire

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

Madwed, Sidney

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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 was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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