Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Patton, George S.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Bible

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Confucius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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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

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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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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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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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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Taylor, Susan

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

Fredrich

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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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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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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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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