Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Madwed, Sidney

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bible

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.