Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Paine, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Forster, Edward M.

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Young, Eva

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

33.

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

May, Louise

34.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Bible

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

40.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

41.

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

Martin, Steve

42.

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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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Horton, Doug

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Think then act safely.