Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horton, Doug

You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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

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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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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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