Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Horton, Doug

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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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 takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian 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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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William