Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

May, Louise

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

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

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.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Braden, Vic

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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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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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Confucius

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

Einstein, Albert

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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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