Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Mizner, Wilson

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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

Braden, Vic

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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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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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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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Eva

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Barzan, George

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

Po, Huang

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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.

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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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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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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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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Frost, Robert

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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