Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

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

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Horton, Doug

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Braden, Vic

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Forster, Edward M.

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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