Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Chapman, John Jay

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Paine, Thomas

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Voltaire

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Barzan, George

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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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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Think then act safely.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Young, Eva

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

Einstein, Albert

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore