Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Hugo, Victor

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Montale, Eugenio

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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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.

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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 takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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