Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Paine, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fredrich

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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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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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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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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Barzan, George

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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 consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo