Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

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

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

Brookner, Anita

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Confucius

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Young, Eva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Voltaire

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise