Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Confucius

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Eva

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Rushdie, Salman

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Barzan, George

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.