Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

- Russell, Bertrand

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

10.

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Cousins, Norman

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Voltaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Butler, Samuel

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

28.

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Confucius

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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Forster, Edward M.

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Einstein, Albert

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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