Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Taylor, Isaac

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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.

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

Braden, Vic

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Einstein, Albert

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Secker, Thomas

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Horton, Doug

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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Eva

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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

Huxley, Aldous

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Madwed, Sidney

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard