Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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.

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

May, Louise

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.