Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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

May, Louise

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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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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Patton, George S.

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Italian

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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