Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

- Golding, William

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.

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

Paine, Thomas

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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.

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

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Taylor, Susan

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Golding, William

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent