Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Allen, James

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Voltaire

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

Buddha

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Buddha

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Hugo, Victor

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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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