Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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

Bible

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.

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Russell, Bertrand

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

May, Louise

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

Young, Eva

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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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

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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.

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Fredrich

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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