Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Butterworth, Eric

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Young, Eva

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Martin, Steve

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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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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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