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

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

Forster, Edward M.

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Brookner, Anita

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Young, Eva

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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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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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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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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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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Newton, Sir Isaac