Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Taylor, Isaac

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

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

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

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

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

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Einstein, Albert

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

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

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop