Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

May, Louise

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

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Cousins, Norman

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

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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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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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