Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Po, Huang

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Russell, Bertrand

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Einstein, Albert

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

May, Louise

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Barzan, George

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Patton, George S.

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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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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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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