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

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

Dryden, John

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Patton, George S.

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

Einstein, Albert

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Montale, Eugenio

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Young, Eva

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Martin, Steve

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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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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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