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

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Butler, Samuel

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.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Secker, Thomas

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Paz, Octavio

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Frost, Robert

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Dryden, John

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

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