Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

- Trine, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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.

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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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