Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Montale, Eugenio

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

Patton, George S.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Think then act safely.

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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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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hugo, Victor

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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

Mizner, Wilson