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

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

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.

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

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

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Bourget, Paul

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.

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young, Eva

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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 makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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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 you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Fredrich

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

Horton, Doug