Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Barzan, George

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Horton, Doug

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Secker, 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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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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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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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Brookner, Anita

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Young, Eva

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Braden, Vic

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David