Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

- Po, Huang

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

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

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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.

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Russell, Bertrand

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Patton, George S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Allen, James

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Braden, Vic

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

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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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Chapman, John Jay

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.