Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

- Rushdie, Salman

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

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

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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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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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Voltaire

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Think then act safely.