Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

- Mizner, Wilson

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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 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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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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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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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

Young, Eva

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Einstein, Albert

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

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

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark