Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Confucius

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

May, Louise

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

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Horton, Doug

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chapman, John Jay

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Stevens, Wallace

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.