Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Frost, Robert

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Think then act safely.

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Buddha

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

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

Horton, Doug

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Butler, Samuel

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Confucius

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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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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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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