Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Paine, Thomas

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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

May, Louise

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

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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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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.

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og