Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Secker, Thomas

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.

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

Twain, Mark

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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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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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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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

Patton, George S.

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Barzan, George

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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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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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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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