Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Russell, Bertrand

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Confucius

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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Think then act safely.

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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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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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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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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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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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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Young, Eva

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent