Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

I think and that is all that I am.

- Dyer, Wayne

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Russell, Bertrand

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Horton, Doug

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Winfrey, Oprah

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Bible

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

Confucius

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Think then act safely.

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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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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Frost, Robert

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Einstein, Albert

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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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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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Young, Eva

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

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

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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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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