Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Brookner, Anita

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Horton, Doug

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Duranty, Walter

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, 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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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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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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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Patton, George S.

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Think then act safely.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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 great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb, Italian

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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

Hugo, Victor

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brookner, Anita

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven