Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

Confucius

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

Paine, Thomas

To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hugo, Victor

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Chapman, John Jay

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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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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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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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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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William