Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Fredrich

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Chapman, John Jay

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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

Young, Eva

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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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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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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Bible

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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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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Frost, Robert

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Think then act safely.

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

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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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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo