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

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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

Martin, Steve

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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

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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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 was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Young, Eva

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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