Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Frost, Robert

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Steere, Bishop

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Horton, Doug

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Voltaire

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dryden, John

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Young, Eva

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Braden, Vic

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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