Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Kempis, Thomas

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Byron, Lord

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

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Young, Eva

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

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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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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]

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Secker, Thomas

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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.

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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Hugo, Victor

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butler, Samuel

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward