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

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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 everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Young, Eva

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Barzan, George

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

Taylor, Isaac

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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

Montale, Eugenio

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Frost, Robert