Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Horton, Doug

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

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Martin, Steve

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

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Brookner, Anita

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Patton, George S.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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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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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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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You become what you think about.