Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

- Chopra, Deepak

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Russell, Bertrand

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Brookner, Anita

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Dryden, John

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Hugo, Victor

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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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

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

May, Louise

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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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

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo