Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

What was once thought can never be unthought.

- Friedrich, Carl J.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Horton, Doug

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Frost, Robert

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Young, Eva

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

Hugo, Victor

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, 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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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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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Voltaire

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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Barzan, George