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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Dryden, John

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Fredrich

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

Frost, Robert

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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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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.