Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

- Stevens, Wallace

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cousins, Norman

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Proverb, Italian

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bible

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Buddha

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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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 is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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 the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Po, Huang

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

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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