Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

- Paz, Octavio

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Barzan, George

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

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dryden, John

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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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Patton, George S.

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Braden, Vic

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter