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

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

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

Paine, Thomas

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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 we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Taylor, Susan

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Italian

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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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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

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Braden, Vic

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Patton, George S.

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Horton, Doug

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Horton, Doug