Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

May, Louise

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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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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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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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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David