Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

- Cousins, Norman

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Madwed, Sidney

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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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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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Arrington, Eva

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Martin, Steve

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Russell, Bertrand