Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Buddha

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

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Horton, Doug

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

Russell, Bertrand

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Think then act safely.

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Confucius

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Quarles, Francis

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Voltaire

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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