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

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Taylor, Isaac

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

Horton, Doug

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Paine, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

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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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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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