Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

- Gardner, George

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Stevens, Wallace

3.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

6.

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

Paine, Thomas

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

May, Louise

9.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Fredrich

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

15.

Think then act safely.

16.

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

Byron, Lord

17.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

18.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

19.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

20.

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

21.

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

22.

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 birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Pascal, Blaise

25.

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

26.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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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

31.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

32.

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

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

37.

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

38.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

39.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

42.

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

Horton, Doug

43.

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

Martin, Steve

44.

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

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

Hugo, Victor