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

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Martin, Steve

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Horton, Doug

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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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 expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Nightingale, Earl

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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