Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Rushdie, Salman

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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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

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Einstein, Albert

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

May, Louise

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise