Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

- Voltaire

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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Think then act safely.

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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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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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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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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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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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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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Braden, Vic

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Twain, Mark

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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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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Duranty, Walter

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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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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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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 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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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 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