Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Dryden, John

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

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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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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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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

Frost, Robert

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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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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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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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.