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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Madwed, Sidney

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Pascal, Blaise

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

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Mizner, Wilson

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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