Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Hugo, Victor

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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.

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

Taylor, Susan

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

Allen, James

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Confucius

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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 wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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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.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Brookner, Anita