Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Voltaire

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

Frost, Robert

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

Byron, Lord

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

Arrington, Eva

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Eva

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horton, Doug

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

May, Louise

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

Quarles, Francis

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Think then act safely.

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl