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

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Einstein, Albert

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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.

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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Frost, Robert

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.