Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Young, Eva

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Taylor, Isaac

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.

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rushdie, Salman

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hugo, Victor

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Confucius

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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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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.