Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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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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Think then act safely.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Young, Eva

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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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 are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Bourget, Paul

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Frost, Robert

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

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

Voltaire

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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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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.