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

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Frost, Robert

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Barzan, George

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

Young, Eva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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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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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Italian

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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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