Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Horton, Doug

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Patton, George S.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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

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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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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Butterworth, Eric

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Braden, Vic

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .