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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horton, Doug

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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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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

May, Louise

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.