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

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Voltaire

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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

Barzan, George

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.