Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Patton, George S.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

Think then act safely.

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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 is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Confucius

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Barzan, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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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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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond