Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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

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

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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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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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

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Forster, Edward M.

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Steere, Bishop

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

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth