Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

- Cousins, Norman

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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

May, Louise

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

Butler, Samuel

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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

Kempis, Thomas

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hugo, Victor

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver