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

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Voltaire

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Confucius

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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Barzan, George

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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