Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Montale, Eugenio

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 you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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

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

Brookner, Anita

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

May, Louise

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Young, Eva

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Paine, Thomas

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

Cousins, Norman

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth