Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

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

May, Louise

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

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

In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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.

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

Confucius

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Barzan, George

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Frost, Robert

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop